Re: Patch to make trunk compile on m68k-next-nextstep3 with 3 = 3.2

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

>Jeff wrote:

>> [...] how easy is it to get [the NEXTSTEP 3.3] assembler?

Very easy.  Melissa mailed it to me as a MIME attachment (it's only  
180K).

>> Ie, I'm sitting here with my 3.2 box, I don't have 3.3 or 4.2  
handy, and from
>> what I can tell the binutils releases do not support my target.   
So how do I
>> upgrade?  Is there some source or binaries I can ftp?  If so,  
where are they?
>> Can I call up NeXT to get the code?  If so, is there something  
specific I
>> should ask for?

>  If no one beats me to it, I should have got sources and
>  binaries put on the major NEXTSTEP archive sites within
>  the next week or so. Right now, those archive sites are
>  a little behind -- no one has updated their archives of
>  ``free stuff from NeXT'' since OS 3.2.  (I'm putting this
>  down to a peculiar form of apathy, because the source is
>  right there on every developer CD-ROM.).

My take on this problem is to skip the convoluted configure stuff  
and simply add an item to the FAQ:

	From snapshot 19980921 onwards, egcs won't build on
	NEXTSTEP 3.2 using the native assembler.  NeXT's `as'
	is a derivative work of GNU as - obtain a free upgrade
	on http://blah.blah.blah.

Of course, to completely pin this down, I do need a test case to  
check that, now that I can build recent snapshots on my NEXTSTEP 3.2  
system, it really works as intended.  Melissa, do you have a simple  
example for an exception-impaired developer ;-)

Thanks in advance,
Toon.