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- From: Philippe Brand <phb@colombo.telesys-innov.fr>
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- Subject: Re: GCC "ssystem() no longer supported" error
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 11:25:27 -0800
- Organization: Telis-SC
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- Dennis Grant wrote:
-
- > Whenever I try and use gcc to compile anything tho, I get a "ssystem() no
- > longer supported - read important.readme" error.
- >
- > There is no important.readme in the gcc distribution, and I greped all the
- > README files for ssystem(). Nada.
- >
- > So what am I doing wrong?
-
- You're using v42 ixemul, which has no longer ssystem() support built in.
- Either revert to gcc270 included ixemul or better: use gccv instead
- of gcc. just
-
- cli> cd gnu:bin
- cli> delete gcc
- cli> rename gccv gcc
-
- starting from 2.7.2, there's no more gcc, replaced by gccv in fact.
-
- ssystem() was removed because gcc binary only needed it. gccv doesn't
- use it and let you pipe gcc executables, reducing amount of disk
- accesses, but increase memory usage. Please note that piping is an
- OPTION, e.g. you're not forced to see your available memory going down
- :)
-
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