From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Subject: Re: Gnu make & gas porting problem! Date: 1 Feb 1992 10:03:38 GMT
>hcg6805@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Heien-Kun Chiang) writes:
>: Hi there:
>:
>: I am trying to port Gnu make and gas to linux without much success.
>: There was no problem in compiling Gnu gas but in the linking phase Gcc
>: complained it couldn't find the library 'libg.a'. I searched the Gnu ftp
>: sites and couldn't find 'libg.a', could anybody points me out where to find
>: it.
As has already been noted, libg.a is used only for debugging, and linux
doesn't support that very well (understatement of the year: I've
sometimes used 'od -hx' on the binaries to find bugs :). The fast fix
is not to use -g, the real fix would be to make a libg.a. Anybody
willing to look into debugging?
>: When compiling Gnu make, the compiler said 'couldn't find <nlist.h>', and
>: quit. Have anybod succeded in porting them.
Well, the make for linux is some older version of GNU make (not /that/
old: 3.60, I just checked), so I know it's possible to compile it... I
think nlist is only used for load average calculation, and linux doesn't
support that anyway, so add a -DNO_LDAV (or something like that) to the
Makefile. I think this is also the reason make seems to be wanting to
be installed as suid root or something.
Sorry for being vague - I've had to delete some of my sources to get
other things to fit, and the sources to make was one of the things that
went overboard.
Linus