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Re: Best place to get GNU tools for OS/2
At 09:30 PM 9/17/95 -0500, you wrote:
>Could some-one elaborate?
>> The best place to get GNU utilities for OS/2 is NOT on the U.S.
>> based OS/2 ftp sites, but on:
>> ftp.leo.org:/pub/comp/os/os2/gnu/
>> or
>> http://www.leo.org/archiv/os2
The EMX package is written in Germany by Eberhard Mattes.
Many of the GNU programs are ported to OS/2 by Kai Uwe Rommel.
They tend to put their stuff on ftp.leo.org (Link Everything Online)
a major network site in Munich. Eventually it migrates over here to
ftp.cdrom.com and hobbes.nmsu.edu, but it can be up on LEO for
months before anyone bothers to copy it. A good example is Perl5 where
the latest port has been on LEO since early summer and just got copied
over here last week.
Although all the EMX files themselves are up to date, and probably
most of the core utilities, you may still have to go to LEO to find
specific libraries. I had a lot of trouble finding GNUUFC which is
needed to link the Apache 0.8.11 port, and finally picked it up at LEO.
The problem with LEO is that overseas transfer rates are poor during
the week, and the best time to copy files is late at night on weekends.
Thus although LEO provides the most up to date source of these files,
it is not the "best" distribution point in any practical sense.
Currently the mainline EMX distribution is GCC 2.6.3. There is a port
of 2.7.0 available as an alternate, but it appears to be in test state.
In this regard, it is important to note that an alternate source of EMX
in the US is ftp://cs.nyu.edu where the GNAT project develops an
Ada complier to run under EMX and GCC. This is really the only US
site with a major formal tie back to the German distribution. However,
NYU is not a source of the other GNU/Unix tools that you would normally
find in CDROM/Hobbes or LEO.