From: Tom J Parry (parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au)
Date: 06/26/93


From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Compiling Linux under OS/2
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 07:24:09 GMT

Louis-D. Dubeau (hallu@aiken) wrote:
> : The as86 sources may need tweaking to get to work correctly (check the
> : readme) due to a.out.h differences, but it shouldn't be a major problem
> : even under OS/2. Also, I assume that EMX 0.8f is one of the gcc ports
> : to OS/2 - otherwise you'll have to get gcc for OS/2 somewhere (it

> Emx is a port of gcc. There's another port of gcc that is called simply
> gcc. IMHO, the emx port is much better than the gcc port.

It is better for porting Unix software but I think gcc/2 is a better native
compiler. The porters of the two products seem to agree with this too. They
recognise that their products are for different purposes and, in fact,
cooperate with each other.

> Louis-Dominique
> An happy user of both Linux and OS/2

Tom Parry
A happy user of both OS/2 and Linux
^^^^

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