Gnu products for AIX 1.1 PS/2 ??

[Thorsten Ohl]

In article <1991Jun25.021546.28992 at rice.edu> fontenot at comet.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot) writes:

>  Please do not laugh too loud. I am wondering if anyone has ported the
>  Gnu products to AIX 1.1 for the PS/2. I am most interested in gcc and
>  gnuemacs. gas and gdb would also be very cool.
>
>  I guess since gcc will not yet work on the RT or the RS/6000 (though
>  why you would want it on the RS/6000 I don't know...it has a *great*
>  compiler :-)

Admitted, but it can't compile C++ code (GCC 2.0 will!).

>                 it is way too much to hope that it will compile on the
>  AIX PS/2.  :-(

I have no info on this, but it should be fairly straightforward, since the
PS/2 are ix86 based.  Actually it should already be supported.

>  I would be pretty happy with gnuemacs though....or barring that, any
>  decent version of emacs (free).

This is from etc/MACHINES, as of GNU Emacs 18.57:

IBM PS2 (m-ibmps2-aix.h; s-usg5-2-2.h or s-usg5-3.h)

  Changes mostly merged in 18.55.  You may need to put an #ifndef AIX
  conditional around the definition of closedir in sysdep.c, and
  perhaps delete the #include of sioctl.h.  You may need to copy
  /usr/lib/samples/hft/hftctl.c to the Emacs src directory.

  Use s-usg5-3.h on AIX 1.2.
  s-usg5-2-2.h should work on either AIX 1.1 or 1.2, but may not work with
  certain new X window managers, and may be suboptimal.

You can get it from prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu (but I have only used it on
a RS/6000).  You might try also the fileutils etc., they're much nicer
tyhan the usual vendor supplied versions.


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-tho

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