Cheapest way to Unix program developement

[Per Andersson]

In article <1271 at island.uu.net> haynes at island.uu.net (Rob Haynes) writes:
>I'm looking for the cheapest way to do program development on Unix.  I
>plan to buy a 386 PC, put a unix without a development toolkit on it,
>get the GNU CC, AS, and LD.  The question is, is that enough to do

You should carefully check out that the GNU ld,gas,nm etc that you will
need really supports 386 Unix. I have a feeling only GCC itself will
work. GNU will not put any effort on supporting COFF format files, and
even ATT will use a new format for executables in System V rel 4. Anyhow,
the system-calls should have enough docs for you being able to make 
programs, but of course the documentation is in the PDK. And if you
use GNU libraries you have committed to give away your sourcecode and
your program. Please read the GNU copyleft. You might find that spending
the extra bucks on the PDK is not such a bad idea.

Per


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Per Andersson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
perand at admin.kth.se, @nada.kth.se 
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Subject: Re: Cheapest way to Unix program developement
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Reply-To: perand at nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Keywords: Unix, GNUCC, GCC, 386

In article <1271 at island.uu.net> haynes at island.uu.net (Rob Haynes) writes:
>I'm looking for the cheapest way to do program development on Unix.  I
>plan to buy a 386 PC, put a unix without a development toolkit on it,
>get the GNU CC, AS, and LD.  The question is, is that enough to do

You should carefully check out that the GNU ld,gas,nm etc that you will
need really supports 386 Unix. I have a feeling only GCC itself will
work. GNU will not put any effort on supporting COFF format files, and
even ATT will use a new format for executables in System V rel 4. Anyhow,
the system-calls should have enough docs for you being able to make 
programs, but of course the documentation is in the PDK. And if you
use GNU libraries you have committed to give away your sourcecode and
your program. Please read the GNU copyleft. You might find that spending
the extra bucks on the PDK is not such a bad idea.

Per


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Per Andersson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
perand at admin.kth.se, @nada.kth.se