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Re: Difference b/w FSF GCC and Apple GCC
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- Subject: Re: Difference b/w FSF GCC and Apple GCC
- From: msokolov at ivan dot Harhan dot ORG (Michael Sokolov)
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 00 23:49:09 CDT
Mark F Rodriguez <macrod@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to compile the GCC tools for Palm development but am having =
> problems with the tool chain determining the proper host type. I'm =
> wondering, if I replace the config files (configure, config.sub, etc.) =
> in the standard GCC distribution with the ones found on Apple's Darwin =
> site, will the proper bits be set to recognize the right host type -- =
> powerpc-apple-darwin1.2. Or should I be using something like =
> powerpc-unknown-bsd to get the compile to work for now? I already have =
> CC running on MacOS X so in theory the prc-tools-2.0 (i.e., the Palm =
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> development tools) should compile if I can get it to recognize the =
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> appropriate host type.
>
> I know eventually these settings will be part of the standard =
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> distribution of the GCC tools, but for know I'd like to get it =
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> working... just because:-)
No. PRC-Tools are a complete and utter fork that has zero relationship to the
mainline GNU toolchain. We, the mainline toolchain developers, are developing
proper support for the PalmOS target in complete orthogonality to PRC-Tools
ever existing. This project is called IPGPE (IFCTF PalmOS GNU Programming
Environment). It has IFCTF in its name because currently the only toolchain
developers working on it are those from the IFCTF Embedded Systems Engineering
group. Other GNU developers are too busy with more important OSes. :-)
The current alpha version of IPGPE uses the official mainline versions of all
modules except gcc. The mainline gcc module will have PalmOS support added to
it by our group real real soon. But even what we have right now (only one
module is hacked) is still a vast improvement over PRC-Tools (hacks
*everywhere*, even in the top-level files).
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