Re: gcc 2.8.1

[Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>]

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

> > KK>My question comes from the fact that I installed Chris' 2.8.1, but, I
> > KK>don't have a particular lust to rename libraries on every upgrade. So I am
> > 
> > I didn't have to rename any single lib, IIRC. "libc.a" and derivates are
> > standard library names for MiNT, aren't they? I have to rename just
> > newly compiled libs (gnu.olb -> libc.a).
> 
> Yes, they are. And 2.7.2 particularly accepted libc.a, while the 2.8.1
> here insists to search for libgnu.a instead. Besides, the 2.7.2 seemed to
> automatically select 68020 compiled libraries when they were named
> appropriately. Like it linked libc.a for -m68000 and libc020.a for
> -m68030. 2.8.1 doesn't seem to do that, perhaps something is missing
> somewhere in specs?

No, the specs file coming with 2.8.1 (and 2.7.2.3) differs from 2.7.2 in
this points. Just take the old one from 2.7.2. This runs ok here.
It is a matter of taste to say something is missing :o)

jps