assembling with gas

[Tom Tkacik CS/50]

In article <1991May8.035216.15851 at texrex.uucp>, rmfowler at texrex.uucp
(Rex Fowler) writes:
|> In article <334 at kyzyl.mi.org> tkacik at kyzyl.mi.org (Tom Tkacik) writes:
|> >In article <1991May4.040336.10403 at texrex.uucp>, rmfowler at texrex.uucp
writes:
|> >> What I'm wanting to do is see if gas is able to assemble teval.s
|> >> from the perl 4.0.0.3 distribution.  eval.c compiled fine but the 
|> >> tainted version (teval.c) won't (ie. Branch offset too remote)
|> 
|> [ I'm trying to compile with gcc but as(1) won't assemble teval.s ]

Last night I compiled perl 4.003.  If you read my other message on the subject
you will notice I am having some problems (though different than yours).
(Anybody compile perl with dbm?)

I compiled perl with gcc, except for eval.c (teval.c), and toke.c (ttoke.c).
Gcc ran out of virtual memory, so I fell back on cc for those files.
I did not have a problem with as(1) not being able to assemble any of the
resulting assembler files.  (Note that teval.c was compiled with cc.)  I do not
know why you ran into difficulty.

|> By the way, I did succeed in building perl 4.003 with setuid/setgid
emulation
|> with the stock cc.

What did you do to solve your problem?  Enquiring minds want to know. :-)

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Tom Tkacik
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