Re: Egcs 1.1 and MPW?

[David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>]

>>>>> Louis Chretien writes:

Louis> At 12:53 -0500 23/10/98, Dave Neuer wrote:
>> Anyone out there know how to compile egcs 1.1 either:
>> 
>> 2) as an MPW tool?
>> 
>> Reading through configure and config.guess, it seems like there's some support
>> for the latter, but I can't figure out how it's actually done.

Louis> Yes, I would very much like some info on that subject. I was considering
Louis> trying a port as an MPW tool, and it looks as if some of the scripts might
Louis> still be useful.

Louis> But if anybody has made some work on this, and is unwilling/unable to go on
Louis> with it, I would gladly pick it up.

	GCC/EGCS was ported to work under MPW.  That work never was fully
completed but it mostly was functional.  Given the lack of interest in
completing the work, its presence in the EGCS distribution confused users
implying that it was more stable and supported, so some of the files were
removed.

	If you go back to the egcs-1.0.3a release, the top-level directory
contains a number of mpw files including "mpw-README" explaining how to
configure EGCS as an MPW tool under MacOS.  Those instructions still
should work for egcs-1.1 modulo other changes to MPW and MacOS in the
interim.  If you can get this functioning again and remove the bit-rot,
EGCS would be happy to restore that functionality in distributions.

David