GNU Development Possible?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

>Is Amiga UNIX going to be sufficiently solid to enable me to get
>GNU EMACS, GNU CC, and other GNU software up and running, and to

I've seen all of the above already running under Amiga Unix. According
to one German developer I talked to, gcc is in fact the compiler of
choice on that machine. For various political reasons they've been
trying to get the AT&T compiler to Do The Right Thing, but he said
a frequently heard phrase heard around Commodore (Germany) was
"What do you mean your program doesn't work? What compiler did you
use? /bin/cc?? Oh, well, that's your problem. Why didn't you use gcc?"
(liberally translated from the German, of course :-).

So the short answer is: Yes, the GNU tools have by-and-large already
been ported by Commodore. I hope that they release them with the machine,
but there are obviously no guarantees.

					Jordan
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