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From: p...@inesc.UUCP (Paulo Dimas)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++
Subject: Porting gcc and g++ to the Macintosh
Summary: Macintosh
Message-ID: <833@inesc.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 20:14:43 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
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Has anyone ported gcc and g++ to the Macintosh?!!
If so, can I get some hints....
Thanks!!!
-- Paulo Dimas (inesc - Lisboa, Portugal (EEC))
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From: r...@AI.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: gnu.g++
Subject: Porting gcc and g++ to the Macintosh
Message-ID: <8905201657.AA00205@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 20 May 89 16:57:22 GMT
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I hope no one ports GCC to the Macintosh; but in any case, we will not
propagate or support such a port. We are boycotting the Macintosh
system because of Apple's look-and-feel copyright lawsuit. This is such
a great threat to the future of free software that it is essential to
do everything we can to pressure Apple and form public opinion against
their demands.
The League for Programming Freedom urges all of you to boycott Apple,
Lotus and Ashton-Tate by not buying their products, not developing
software to work with their products, and not working for those
companies.
Here is our latest action:
This Wednesday, the League for Programming Freedom will protest the
look-and-feel copyright demands of Lotus, Apple and Ashton-Tate by
picketing the headquarters of Lotus. The sponsors of the
demonstration include Guy L. Steele, Jr., Richard Stallman and MIT
Professors Marvin Minsky, Gerald J. Sussman, and Patrick Winston. If
you want to preserve the freedom to write and use programs of your
choice, join our demonstration!
We will gather at Tech Square in Cambridge (on Main Street near Vassar
Street) shortly before noon on Wednesday May 24, rain or shine. Go to
the center of Tech Square, between the buildings, where the trees are.
At noon we will march to the Lotus building next to the river at 55
Cambridge Parkway. If you are late, go directly there. Don't be too
late, since we will finish at 1pm.
If you work in the suburbs, you can travel back and forth and stay for
the entire demonstration in about 2.5 hours. That's a long lunch, but
you can get away with it.
Please post copies of this announcement where you work, on bulletin
boards and anywhere else appropriate. Also speak to your coworkers
and friends about the demonstration; some of them may not read net
news or bulletin boards.
Since not everyone will make a sign, it is very helpful if you do so.
Here are some suggestions for slogans:
SAY NO TO MONOPOLY
KEEP YOUR LAWYERS OFF MY COMPUTER
BOYCOTT LOTUS
PROGRAMMERS ARE ANGRY
Use your imagination; the more variety, the better.
We are thinking of returning some used 1-2-3 manuals to Lotus as a
symbolic gesture of rejection of their software. If you have a manual
you would like to use for this, bring it along.
Once we get to the Lotus building, please remember not to litter, not
to block pedestrians and to stay out of the street. We want to behave
as responsible citizens of a democratic society and be seen as such.
It's a sure thing there will be lots of reporters covering the first
demonstration ever by programmers about an issue vital to the
programming field.
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From: d...@sticks.aux.apple.com (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: GCC 1.35 now available for A/UX
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Date: 22 May 89 19:24:50 GMT
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Reply-To: d...@sticks.aux.apple.com (David W. Berry)
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GCC 1.35 is now available for A/UX 1.1. Some slight changes might
be necessary for A/UX 1.0. Both gas and A/UX assemblers are supported
by compile time options. (USE_GAS or AUX_ASM must be defined either
in the Makefile or in tm-aux-1.1.h) The following files are included:
gcc-1.35.aux.bin.Z - compiled version of the compiler. Place
gcc in /usr/local/bin and others in /usr/local/lib. This
isn't everything necessary to run gcc, it's just enough to
compile the distribution. Unfortunately, the A/UX compiler
can't cope.
gcc-1.35.aux.diffs.Z - differences to be applied to the standard
gcc-1.35 distribution.
gcc-1.35.aux.tar.Z - complete gcc-1.35 distribution with A/UX
changes applied.
The distribution is available by anonymous ftp from ~ftp/gnu from either
apple.com (or for internal sites only, goofy)
The USE_GAS compilation requires gas and gcc-binutils to both be compiled
with the COFF_ENCAPSULATE options. At some point in the near future I should
be making both available for public consumption.
Also coming soon:
emacs 18.54
g++ 1.35
David
Opinions: MINE, ALL MINE! (greedy evil chuckle)
David W. Berry (A/UX Toolbox Engineer)
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From: d...@sticks.aux.apple.com (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: FSF Hypocrisy
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Date: 30 May 89 23:20:37 GMT
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It has now been slightly over a week since I made my original
posting noting that GCC Version 1.35 for A/UX was available for anonymous
ftp from apple.com.
The work necessary to port GCC was done on my own time, at
my own expense, (and the request of Hugh Daniel, John Gilmore, and
The Grasshopper Group) because collectively we felt that A/UX needed
a better compiler and the most effective way of achieving that was
to port gcc. Subsequently, the changes were made available via
anonymous ftp so that the work I performed, and for which I received
no compensation, could benefit others.
In the intervening week I have received mail from Len Tower
observing that no postings advertising products for the great demon
Apple were acceptable in this newsgroup which is the private property
of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project. It went on to
state that if I didn't voluntarily refrain from further such postings
that measures would be taken to prevent me from making further postings.
At the same time, there was a posting by Richard Stallman
turning my simple effort to assist those around me, into a political
action. I was accused of "gloating... because he turned the GNU project's
own mailing list toward the end of prohibiting free software." And
you were urged "don't cooperate with Apple's use of GCC." Cooperate
with it or not, Apple doesn't currently use and to the best of my
knowledge, has no intentions of using gcc.
My original posting was very intentionally nonpolitical, because
my goals in porting and providing support for various GNU products
is that I wish to use them for my own personal development, and was hoping
to avoid all other issues.
Richard, Leonard, and the rest of the Free Software Foundation,
claim to stand for free rights to software for all individuals. I
believe it is well within their right of free speech to urge you
to boycott Apple and with their rights to boycott Apple themselves.
It's a crying shame that they can't see the hypocrisy involved
choosing to deny me my right to free speech in a publicly accessible
and publicly supported forum. Whether they like it or not gnu.gcc
is not the private property of the FSF, but is a public forum which
I choose to use to notify other users of A/UX and Gnu products of
new ports. Remember that FSF bears NONE OF THE COST OF DISTRIBUTING
either the gnu.gcc news group, mailing list or any of the other news
groups. The extent of their support is in answering questions posted
to the group and in maintaining the mailing list assosciated with gnu.gcc.
All other expenses (ie., the phone charges that perform all of the
distribution) are carried by other individuals and corporations.
Given the current censorship threats on the part of the Free
Software Foundation I can but hope you see this message.
David
Opinions: MINE, ALL MINE! (greedy evil chuckle)
David W. Berry (A/UX Toolbox Engineer)
d...@apple.com 973-5...@408.MaBell AppleLink: berry1