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Re: Has anyone ported GNU-make to IBM RS-6000/AIX?

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From: Roland McGrath
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 14:37
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In article <JAE.91Apr24131258@pv031e.iastate.edu> jae@iastate.edu (Edwards John Andrew) writes:

   I have been wondering the same thing.  Apparently, it is due to
   be released with gcc-2.00, whenever that appears.  I would like
   very much to have it available because I also want G++ on this
   box.

I have no idea where you got that notion.  Make and GCC are quite
unrelated.
Version 3.60 of GNU Make will include support for AIX archives,
which, as far as I know, is all that is required for RS6000s.

   Alas, there also may be a political problem arising with IBM and
   lawsuits, so the AIX/RS6000 port may *never* be available from
   FSF.

This is completely false.  The only problem IBM had with us was
a misunderstanding about distributing Emacs.  The issue of ports of
GNU software to IBM machines is entirely separate.  We are not in the
business of porting our software to random machines and operating systems,
but we are willing to include some ports if they don't take too much trouble
to maintain.
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From: roland@ALBERT.GNU.AI.MIT.EDU (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: Re: Has anyone ported GNU-make to IBM RS-6000/AIX?
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Date: 25 Apr 91 14:37:56 GMT
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