Re: anyone know if this is true?

[ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon)]

Sadly, it *is* true.  I guess many more 6.2 pissed off customers
are waiting down the pipeline.

We can solve it by getting David Miller's development environment
packaged as freeware, (it includes a GNU linker that works)
and put it (really quick) outside the firewall for whoever
is interested.

	1) Someone with a couple of days of time needs to take this
	   and just do it. I was planning on it, but I need
	   another week or so to start.

	2) I'm afraid we'll need to add crt[1n].o as binaries
	   as these are *not* shipped with the headers and libraries
	   of 6.2

Any comments, objections from anyone (especially for step 2) ?


>
>If it isn't true, can someone send mail to Tiemann and tell him the
>facts.  Sounds like we're getting bad press.
>
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>Date:    Tue, 18 Jun 1996 05:22:52 -0700
>From:    Michael Tiemann <tiemann@cygnus.com>
>To:      lm@sgi.com
>Subject: [comp.sys.sgi.apps] gcc part II
>
>Is this not fixed in 6.2?  I upgraded my machine at home yesterday, and
>it looked suspiciously like SGI was providing headers and libraries as
>part of the std 6.2 release.
>
>    From: jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust)
>    Subject: gcc part II
>    Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.apps
>    Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:25:34 -0700
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>    Before I fly off the handle, I wanna make sure this is true.
>
>    You can't build ***anything*** unless you fork over a huge wad of cash to
>    SGI for their compiler and dev enviro?
>
>    **If** this is true, it's horseshit. No wonder SGI is so far down the food
>    chain in the land of UNIX. Buying SGI could be one of the biggest mistakes
>    I've made since openning my business over 15 months ago. I wonder if my 30
>    days are up. Maybe I can ship it back. I only wish I'd bought [insert any
>    other UNIX platform here].
>
>    If it's not true, could someone plz point me in the right direction to get
>    gcc working so I can compile BIND, RADIUS, wuftpd, etc...
>
>    pissed off with no build capability,
>    jon
>
>    --------------------------------------------------------
>    Jon Rust
>    Internet Access of Ventura County
>    jon@vc.net        http://www.vc.net         805.383.3500
>
>I know that gcc is not yet 6.2-friendly, but that's much more easily
>fixed than the library/header problem.
>
>Michael
>
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-- 
Peace, Ariel