Re: C compiler, assembler and linker

[mjn3@codepoet.org (Manuel Novoa III)]

Robert,

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:16:52AM +0100, Robert de Bath wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> 
> > Some of the build changes only make sense if you aren't installing
> > in the default locations as root.
> 
> Humm, Manuel, you do realise that it isn't necessary to install dev86
> to use it don't you?

Yes, although I had some problems in the past.  Don't remember which
version though.  I had an older version of bcc installed (from the
linux distribution I was using) and at one point the newer bcc was
still calling the older bcc-cc1 unless I set BCC_EXEC_PREFIX.

> I just put these two lines in a script in my $HOME/bin directory.
> 
> #!/bin/sh -
> exec /usr/src/linux_86/bin/ncc "$@"

I use a similar script (with options and include path overrides), but I
was using bcc rather than ncc.

BTW, there was one other mod in my bcc patch that I forgot to mention.
Since bcc doesn't support ## for token pasting, I was using the old k&r
method (where /**/ doesn't get mapped to space as in ANSI C).  But

#define __PASTE(x,y) x/**/y

wasn't working for me, so I patched things so it would.  That was some
time ago though, so I don't know if it is still a problem with stock
bcc.

Oh yes, and I had modifed the flags for ncc in the dev86 build to
include -ansi because the ELKS headers have now been ansi-fied.

Manuel