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G N U G E N E R A L I N F O R M A T I O N
(Updated 7/12/94)
========
OVERVIEW
========
This is the root directory of a set of utilities which started with Amiga
ports of important GNU (GNU's Not Unix) tools, such as the GNU C compiler,
and then has gradually expanded to encompass other tools.
For information about what has changed since the previous release, see the
CHANGES topic later in this file.
One of the goals of this set of utilities is to have a completely self
hosting environment. I.E. that everything within it be compilable by the
GNU C compiler or other provided compilers. It should be possible for the
recipient of these utilities to make whatever changes or bug fixes they
want in any piece of code, and then rebuild and use that fixed version (and
hopefully send those changes back for integration into future releases).
==========
STACK SIZE
==========
*** IMPORTANT ***
Some of the GNU utilities, gcc in particular, require a
very large stack. You need to arrange that the CLI/Shell
or whatever you run these programs from has a large stack
set. In a CLI you can set this with a command of the
form "stack 100000" (100000 is what I use). You can also
put this command in your S:Shell-Startup file to get large
stacks for all CLI/Shell startups, without having to
remember to manually set the stack each time. Really huge
compiles, like recompiling the compiler itself, may require
even more stack space (like 300Kb or more).
=========
STRUCTURE
=========
Important subdirectories are:
amigados ? (gcc/g++ uses this for something...)
bin Where the GNU executables go.
etc Equivalent to /etc on UNIX.
guide AmigaGuide versions of info files.
include Include files used by gcc.
info Info files.
lib Library tree, like /usr/lib on UNIX.
man Manual pages.
manifests Lists that subdivide this tree up into important
subsets for individual distribution, such as all
the files that comprise a binary distribution of
the GNU C compiler.
os-include System specific include files. These are
Commodore proprietary and are distributed
under license from Commodore.
os-lib System specific library files. These are
derived from Commodore proprietary libraries
and are distributed under license from Commodore.
src All the source code, including the original
FSF distributions, patches to the FSF distributions,
and the fully patched AmigaDOS sources.
==============
GENERAL STATUS
==============
Distribution Prev This Latest
Name CD-ROM CD-ROM FSF Status
------------ ------ ------ ------ -----------------
a++ * 1.01 n/a Added
autoconf * 1.11 1.11 Added
bash 1.13.4 1.13.4 1.13.4 Port incomplete
bc 1.02 1.02 1.02 No change
binutils 1.8.x 1.8.x 2.3 No change
bison 1.22 1.22 1.22 No change
calc * * 2.02b No port integrated yet
cpio 2.3 2.3 2.3 No change
cvs * * 1.3 No port integrated yet
dc 0.2 0.2 0.2 No change
dejagnu * * 1.1.1 No port integrated yet
diffutils 2.6 2.6 2.6 No change
doschk 1.1 1.1 1.1 No change
ed * 0.1 0.1 Added
elvis * * 1.7 No port integrated yet
emacs 18.59 18.59 19.22 No change
f2c 930428 930428 930428 No change
fileutils 3.9 3.9 3.9 No change
find 3.8 3.8 3.8 No change
finger * * 1.37 No port integrated yet
flex 2.4.6 2.4.6 2.4.6 No change
fontutils * * 0.6 No port integrated yet
gas 1.38 1.38 2.2 No change
gawk 2.15.4 2.15.5 2.15.5 Updated
gcc 2.5.8 2.5.8 2.5.8 No change
gdb 4.12 4.12 4.12 No change - Port incomplete
gdbm 1.7.1 1.7.3 1.7.3 Updated
ghostscript 2.6.1 2.6.1 2.6.1 No change
ghostview * * 1.5 No port integrated yet
glibc * * 1.06 No port integrated yet
gmp 1.3.2 1.3.2 1.3.2 No change
gnat * 1.80 n/a Added
gnuchess * * 4.0.62 No port integrated yet
gnugo * * 1.1 No port integrated yet
grep 2.0 2.0 2.0 No change
groff 1.09 1.09 1.09 No change
gzip 1.2.4 1.2.4 1.2.4 No change
indent 1.9.1 1.9.1 1.9.1 No change
ispell 4.0 4.0 4.0 No change
less * * 177 No port integrated yet
libg++ 2.5.3 2.5.3 2.5.3 No change
m4 1.1 1.1 1.1 No change
make 3.70 3.71 3.71 Updated
mm * * 1.07 No port integrated yet
mtools * * 2.0.7 No port integrated yet
nethack * * 3.1.3 No port integrated yet
oleo * * 1.3.1b No port integrated yet
patch 2.1 2.1 2.1 No change
pdksh 4.5 4.9 n/a Updated
perl 4.036 4.036 4.036 No change (not working)
rcs 5.6.0.1 5.6.0.1 5.6.0.1 No change
readline * * 1.1 No port integrated yet
recode * * 3.2.4 No port integrated yet
regex * * 0.12 No port integrated yet
sed 2.03 2.05 2.05 Updated
shellutils 1.9.4 1.10 1.10 Updated
tar 1.11.2 1.11.2 1.11.2 No change
termcap 1.2 1.2 1.2 No change
texinfo 3.1 3.1 3.1 No change
textutils 1.9 1.9 1.9 No change
time * * 1.6 No port integrated yet
tput * * 1.0 No port integrated yet
uucp * * 1.04 No port integrated yet
uuencode 1.0 1.0 1.0 No change
wdiff * * 0.04 No port integrated yet
==============
GNU C COMPILER
==============
All the versions of gcc look for local header files in LOCAL:include and
LOCAL:os-include, and look for local library files in LOCAL:lib and
LOCAL:os-lib. This allows you to add local packages that will be found
automatically by gcc, in a location that is writable by you. Simply
reassign LOCAL: to point to the correct location.
Gcc now automatically includes -lamiga in the command line to the linker,
so you can use AmigaDOS specific calls in your code without having to
remember to link with libamiga.a.
As of this date, all releases of gcc since 2.3.3 have had broken support
for the -resident option. This is one reason why gcc 2.3.3 is still
included on the CD-ROM. To demonstrate the problem, try to bootstrap using
"make bootstrap RESIDENT=-resident".
==========
GNU LINKER
==========
A new option "-f" or "-flavor" is used to inform the linker to look in
additional subdirectories for particular "flavors" of libraries, like
libraries compiled with -fresident, libraries compiled with -g, libraries
compiled with -p, etc. All the flavor args are collected in a list,
sorted, and then used to create additional sudirectories at the end of the
standard library search paths.
For example, given the args
"-L mystuff:lib -flavor libx -flavor libb -lmylib"
the linker will search for libmylib.a in "mystuff:lib/libb/libx/".
In particular, this is the mechanism that is now used to locate the base
relative libraries, which have moved from gcc:blib to gcc:lib/libb.
Eventually there will be other standard flavors of libraries, like -p
compiled and -g compiled libraries, in a subtree like:
gcc:lib/libb/libc.a -resident
gcc:lib/libb/libg/libc.a -resident -g
gcc:lib/libb/libg/libp/libc.a -resident -g -p
gcc:lib/libp/libc.a -p
gcc:lib/libg/libp/libc.a -g -p
etc.
============
GNU DEBUGGER
============
GDB 4.12 has been ported to the extent that you can build an AmigaDOS
executable that knows how to load and examine executables from non-AmigaDOS
systems. Much work remains. See the gnu:src/diffs/gdb-4.12-README file.
=======
CHANGES
=======
This is a summary of things that have changed since the last release.
* It is now possible to configure and build most of the GNU
tree using a single command, and to do so in a directory
that is total separate from the GNU tree (commonly called
the "build" directory. I.E.
makedir junk:build
cd junk:build
sh
/gnu/src/amiga/configure amigados ; make
* Added a port of GNU ada (gnat) done by Pass Travis. Thanks Pass!
See gnu:src/amiga/gnat-1.80/README-amiga for details. For examples
of how to run the compiler, and test your installation, try the
examples in the gnat-1.80/examples directory.
* GNU sed updated to version 2.05.
* GNU "ed" version 0.1 added.
* GNU autoconf 1.11 added.
* GNU gawk updated to version 2.15.5.
* GNU gdb updated with patches for reading AmigaDOS "hunk" format.
* GNU gdbm updated to version 1.7.3.
* GNU make updated to version 3.71.
* GNU shell utils updated to version 1.10 (and renamed).
* Pdksh updated from version 4.5 to version 4.9, the latest public
release, and autoconf support added.
* Added "autoconf" support to most tools that didn't already have
autoconf support, and rebuild the automatically generated configure
scripts for those tools that did come with autoconf support, using
the latest version of autoconf.
* Merged in some GNU ld bug fixes and other changes.
* Merged a patch in ls.c so that ls will handle international
characters better.
* Version 1.01 of Armin Vogt's A++ library has been added to the GNU
source tree. It hasn't yet been integrated as part of the standard
GNU C environment though. The A++ library is a library written in
C++ that consists of classes assigned to the task of encapsulating
the Amiga system software, to given them a proper C++ class
interface. See the documentation and examples in the source
directory "src/amiga/APlusPlus".
====
TODO
====
This is a list of things that still remain to be done for future releases,
and/or comments about future directions.
* Beta versions of gcc that use separate 68020/030/040 binaries
and libraries are currently in testing. They should be integrated
in the next release.
* New versions of ixemul.library (40.X) are in beta test. Once they
are stable, they will be integrated into a future release.
* Look at adding AmigaDOS style version strings to all binaries.
* Look at redoing documentation files (such as this one) as AmigaGuide
documents, or as texinfo files that can be used to generate both
AmigaGuide and plain-text files.
* Integrate an "info-to-AmigaGuide" converter into the standard
build and install process, in order to generate and install
AmigaGuide versions of all info files.
* Ensure that the standard documentation browsing tools are present
and work correctly (man, info, etc).
* Continue integrating selected tools now that the "GNU tree" has
been opened up to non-GNU tools as well as GNU tools. One fertile
source of material may be the BSD-lite distributions.
* Finish the GNU emacs 18.XX port so that it can be compiled with the
GNU C compiler.
* Port GNU emacs 19.XX.
* In cpio-2.3, the "mt" program is not getting built, possibly
because "rmt" support is not provided by default. Fix this.
* Provide documentation in both *.dvi and *.ps formats.