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[Gcl-devel] Re: solaris, m$windows


From: Camm Maguire
Subject: [Gcl-devel] Re: solaris, m$windows
Date: 21 Mar 2002 12:35:39 -0500

address@hidden writes:

> there should be no place where cc is used.  the configure process should
> when it finds gcc use that everywhere.  can you check configure and see
> where it fails, as this may be a problem on other systems too.
> running cc on solaris when cc is not installed sets ? as follows.
> 
> $ cc jello.c
> /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
> $ echo $?
> 1
> $
> 

Greetings!  OK, I think I've fixed this.  Please confirm.

> regarding m$, i think we should fix fasl loading rather than moving to
> using dll's.  a dll is m$'s equivalent to a .so on unix, and it is
> much more computationally expensive to create one.  what is being done
> is to load the object, create a shared library, relocate it and write it
> out.  then load it, which uses the os to create data structures for it
> so that other apps can use it, etc.  it seems cheaper to use libbfd,
> maybe modifying it to load objects and relocating them.  or maybe use
> gcc to create pic, so relocation is not necessary.
> dan


Well, great to hear someone still appreciates the fast but difficult
way!  We'll see if we can get libbfd working most everywhere.

Take care,

> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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