Freeware Installation instructions
Download the files you desire from the download page.
Make sure you upload them in binary format.
These files are tar files
and will have an extension of .tar attached to them. As you upload
them with your tool of choice, you may need to rename them to something
appropriate for that tool. For example, gnucore.tar may need to
be renamed to GNUCORE in order to download it with Reflection.
You will need to adjust these instructions to fit the tool you are
using. They were written around the assumption you used FTP.
As MANAGER.SYS, execute the following instructions.
Create an account called FREEWARE:
:newacct FREEWARE,MANAGER;cap=AM,AL,GL,ND,SF,BA,IA,PH
Enter the POSIX shell by typing:
:sh
Once there,
cd /FREEWARE
and upload your tarfiles to that location. If you uploaded them
before this step and renamed them in the process, now would
be a good place to either rename them back to what they were, or adjust
the names in the instructions below. If you are not familiar with
POSIX, it would be better to rename the files to their original name.
If you uploaded gnucore.tar as GNUCORE.PUB.ACCT, then you
can rename them with
mv /ACCT/PUB/GNUCORE /FREEWARE/gnucore.tar
Make sure that all of the uploaded files are in the /FREEWARE
directory before proceeding.
Each of the tarfiles are pretty much self contained. The only file that
must be downloaded and installed is GNUCORE. The name of each tarfile
is also the name of the group to which it will be untarred. So, to
unpack GNUCORE, you would follow these instructions:
cd /FREEWARE
callci "newgroup GNUCORE.FREEWARE"
tar -xopvf gnucore.tar
Repeat this for each of the additional tarfiles you wish to install:
callci "newgroup GNUCVS.FREEWARE"
tar -xopvf gnucvs.tar
callci "newgroup GNUGCC.FREEWARE"
tar -xopvf gnugcc.tar
Once you've unpacked the tarfiles, the rest of the installation is pretty well automatic.
Before you exit from the shell, confirm that all of the INSTALL
files in all groups except INSTALL.PUB are normal fixed
record files:
callci "listf INSTALL.@.FREEWARE,2"
If they are byte stream files as indicated by "1B":
CODE ------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE---- FILENAME
SIZE TYP EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
1B BA 1626 2147483647 1 16 1 * INSTALL
you will need to convert them to non byte stream files. You can do
that as follows:
cd GNUCORE
frombyte ./INSTALL INSCORE
mv -f INSCORE INSTALL
Repeat that for each group where the INSTALL file is a
byte stream file.
Finally, exit the shell with "exit"
and invoke the INSTALL script in each group except PUB
as follows:
:INSTALL.GNUCORE.FREEWARE
:INSTALL.GNUGCC.FREEWARE
Note that I have seen a couple of instances whereby tar
fails to overwrite files of the same name. These
usually result in an "implementation defined error"
type of message. It may be best to remove
any old installation of the GNU tools before installing them again.
If you have network access, the documentation can also be found at
http://www.dis.com/gnu/gcc/.
I've got a slow link, so be patient.
If you have any questions, they can be faxed to me at 415-898-8885.
I can also be reached through
email as mklein@orbitsw.com or mklein@dis.com.
This software was contributed by Mark Klein
as is and is provided without warranty of any type.
Source code is being integrated into the official releases and
will be available from GCC Homepage.
Last Update: 31 Jan 2001