@(#)README	1.1	00/12/25

This directory contains builds and ports of the GNU C Compiler (gcc) for 4.3BSD
UNIX.

Currently the only gcc version successfully bootstrapped and working acceptably
on 4.3BSD is a patched version "2.8.1x" based on a post-2.8.1 snapshot of the
old FSF gcc (in its final days). No version of EGCS or the new post-EGCS GCC
has been successfully bootstrapped on 4.3BSD so far.

This gcc-2.8.1x was made to work on VAX Ultrix by John David Anglin, National
Research Council of Canada (dave.anglin@nrc.ca), and further hacked for 4.3BSD
UNIX by Michael Sokolov, International Free Computing Task Force
(msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG). The version distributed here only has C, no C++,
FORTRAN, or Objective C. Getting the non-C languages to work may not be
difficult, but I couldn't justify spending any time of them.

gcc-2.8.1x-src.tar.Z is the source, and it builds correctly on 4.3BSD using the
standard gcc build procedures. The recommended installation on
4.3BSD-Quasijarus is to configure gcc with --prefix=/usr/local/GCC, install it
there, make symlinks for gcc and other public executables from /usr/local to
where they are under /usr/local/GCC, format its man pages, and put them in
/usr/local/man/cat1 for man to find. This way gcc's directory structure which
doesn't match the 4.3BSD-Quasijarus system is hidden away and what the users
see strictly matches the system.

gcc-2.8.1x-vaxbin.tar.Z is the prebuilt 4.3BSD binary (bootstrapped with -O2 on
4.3BSD-Quasijarus0a). It is to be untarred into /usr/local/GCC. Untar it with
tar xp, it already has the right ownership and modes in the tarball.

Michael Sokolov
Public Service Agent
International Free Computing Task Force
msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG