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Article #72062Re: Gnu and NeXT
From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 18:40
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 18:40
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In article <1992Apr26.211116.4533@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu> ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
In article <182@colossus.mct-aria> allan@mct.uucp ( System Guru) writes:
> [...] I am quite
> attracted to the NeXT machine. I've had the loan of one for a week or
> so and as a general Unix platform it's been impressive. Is there
> anyone out there using gnu software on NeXT in anger and if so, what
> are your feelings about the combination?? What are the problems,
> pitfalls??
The main pitfall I've seen is that as far as I know there's no BFD for
the NeXT object file format ("Mach-O"), so the GNU binary utilities
don't work on it.
Can somebody please tell me I'm wrong?
I think you're right, but since the preferred object file format will
eventually by Mach-O on GNU, it will eventually be supported.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,6fab2765a170ea35 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-04-27 11:40:45 PST Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!mib From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) Subject: Re: Gnu and NeXT In-Reply-To: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu's message of 26 Apr 92 21:11:16 GMT Message-ID: <MIB.92Apr27134045@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA References: <182@colossus.mct-aria> <1992Apr20.174901.3212@smart.bo.open.de> <1992Apr26.211116.4533@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu> Distribution: gnu Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 18:40:45 GMT Lines: 25