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new Cygnus support release installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Jan 9 18:30:25 1998
To: ise40@MIT.EDU, ise19@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU, software-announce@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 18:27:35 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have installed the latest (97r2) Cygnus release of the gnu compilers and
programming tools (gcc, g++, gdb.....) on Athena. To run them, do
"add cygnus", followed by "setenv CYGNUS_VERSION 97r2", then you can do
"gcc myprog.c" etc. (or if you prefer, skip the setenv and do
"add cygnus-97r2").
There's not a whole lot different from the current Athena default release
(97r1); there is HTML documentation at URL
http://web.mit.edu/cygnus/cygnus-97r2/www/index.html
There are two bugs that I know of (and that have already been reported
to Cygnus). On SGIs, running g++ with the "-static" switch generates an
error message about "shared Elf object libstdc++.a cannot be linked
non-shared" and running gdb (also on SGIs) generates warnings:
"warning: failed to install memory consistency checks; configuration
should define NO_MMCHECK or MMCHECK_FORCE"
(setting either of these seems to have no effect); these warnings may
be innocuous but I'm not certain.
Please try out the new release and let me know if you run into problems.
I'd like to make this release the default before IAP is over.
Alex
