I would like to submit a "patch", that isnt exactly a patch, but a utility for compilation. Some folks on solaris like to have gcc compiled with the native assembler, but DO have 'gas' installed. SOME nice programs that require gas, allow for "configure --with-gas=/path/to/gas" But rather than adjusting a few dozen makefiles or whatever it takes to use that sort of behaviour, here's another way: Just set CC to be a wrapper script, instead of gcc. [and fix winebuild to use 'gas' if in PATH, rather than naked 'as', perhaps?] Here's the script that seems to work for the gcc wrapper. I havent finished compiling the dang thing.. I didnt realize it would take QUITE this long, and quite this much space. I'm going to sleep now :-) But I wanted to email out the script now to the good folks out there in the wired: #!/bin/ksh -p #wrapper script to make "normal" gcc act like a gcc with gas build-in. #assuming that compilation of .c to .o uses "gcc -c ... -o outfile ... *.c" if [ "$1" = "gcc" ] ; then shift ; fi case "$1" in -c) shift ;; *) exec gcc "$@" exit ;; esac gcc -S $* while [[ "X$1" != "X-o" ]] ; do shift if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then print ERROR: no -o found exit fi done shift echo temp outfile is $1. Using gas on it mv $1 $1.s gas -o $1 $1.s
