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In article <1991Jan23.173137.18956@vlsi.polymtl.ca> scoob@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Christian Marcotte) writes:
>
>	I'm new to SCO world (was working with Sun before).
>	I was wondering if all the gnu stuff (mainly bison, gas, gcc/++, gdb)
>	compiled directly on SCO UNIX (or Xenix) ??
>
>	If not, where can I get the appropriate patches ?
>

  Ideally SCO UNIX would be as generic as any other flavor of Unix and
  NOT require specific patchs and hoop jumping to make your favorite
  software (Gnu everything :-) ) work.  

  Unfortunately this is not quite the case with SCO.  There are several
  hurdles to get gcc to work. Then more problems getting g++ to work.
  To date I've been able to get gcc 1.37.1 working on ODT 1.0.  I have
  not been able to make gas 1.36 work with the gcc compiler however. 
  ( The 1.37 gcc compiler still sometimes produces instructions that the 
  att assembler does not grok, you can work around it. - this is all 
  SCO-ODT 1.0 )

  I believe that latest version of gcc is 1.39, gas is 1.37, and g++ is 
  1.37.1.  



  _Patches/Developments_ SCO specific ...

  Tim Iversion, uunet!xstor!iverson, 21 Jan 91, gnu.gcc.help;
>    patches to make gcc 1.39 work
>    under SCO with gas 1.37 exist and, pending approval from the authors of the
>    patches (I didn't write 'em, I just ported 'em), will be made available
>    soon (a week from now at the latest).

  Chip Salzenberg, chip@tct.uucp, 5 Jan 91, comp.unix.sysv386;
>	here is the NEW AND IMPROVED patch for GCC/G++ for
>	functions returning structures in the Microsoft style, for use with
>	SCO UNIX system libraries.


  Most of the smaller utilities (bison etc ) do not require any special
  changes.   Use rcc (AT&T compiler) and not cc (Microsoft)  because
  cc truncates variable and function names longer than about ~20 chars. 
  Also, don't use -O with rcc.  Once you get gcc compiled you can recompile
  your utilities with it.


 __ ODT/SCO versions __

 The real meat of the problem is the SCO OS version you are running.
 ODT 1.0 has an OS '3.2 2 i386'.  The latest SCO Unix (and the one 
 included in the next ODT 1.1 release in march) is '3.2v2 i386'. 
 The only difference in the name is the 'v'.  This indicates significant
 improvements in the ODT software however.

 I believe that Chip's g++ patches are for a 3.2v2  release.  I'm not 
 sure if you can get g++/libg++ running on straight ODT 1.0.  If anyone 
 has I'd be interested in hearing about it.
  



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