g++ from wuarchive -- does your mileage vary?

[John Coolidge]

sorensen at athena.mit.edu (Alma G. Sorensen) writes:
>I've successfully gotten gcc 1.37.91 off of wuarchive, and eventually gotten 
>it up and running. (Thanks, John Coolidge!!).

>I need g++; I've not been so successful with it.

>Unlike gcc, the binaries with g++ a[pparently don't need recompilation 
>to get installed and working properly -- I thought.  But, I'm getting some
>rather nasty errors from g++ on my IIfx running A/UX 2.0.  

>Has anyone else verified that g++ works well? In particular I'm trying to
>get InterViews up and running.

It does _not_ work well. When I released it, I mentioned that it
was very unlikely to work correctly, but I didn't have anything
better. The problem is that the version of g++ on wuarchive
wants to use Apple's as, while gcc wants to use gas. Gcc finds
the assembler by using gcc-as if exists, and otherwise calling
as, so gcc-as exists. Unfortunately, g++ uses exactly the same
algorithm --- thus the problem :-(.

I'm hoping to get a better g++ out in the next few days. I'm not
spending much time on compilers right now, but I do have a g++
that almost works, and it probably won't take that much time to
get it out...

--John

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