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From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: GNU software for 386BSD
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References:  <2521@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 18:41:27 GMT
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In article <2521@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>, gt@prosun.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski) writes:
|> 
|> Is there anybody out there trying to build the 'binutils-2.0'?
|> The same question about 'gas-1.92.3'. I try to configure it with
|> something like --host=i386-386bsd-bsd, but it seems that the 
|> GNU project didn't work with this kind of OS. This is something
|> I do not understand. First they are waiting for a free OS, and
|> then they don't use it.
|> 

FYI, the FSF is considering to distribute Linux for AT386/486. Lots of GNU
stuff, like binutils-2.0, gcc 2.3, gdb 4.6/4.7, libg++ 2.2 ..., support
Linux. I heard IV 3.1 will support Linux too. If eveything goes fine, the
FSF release may be out before the end of this year.


|> 	Thanks in advance.
|> 
|>  /gT/
|> 
|> 
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H.J.