The following relates to using gpc on Mac OS X with the tools that come with "Xcode 1.5" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---

1. There was a report that gpc issues the following error message:

'gpc: installation problem, cannot exec `c++filt3': No such file or directory"

The Xcode installer doesn't install c++filt3, I reported this as a bug to Apple. The obvious solution is to type the following on the terminal command line:

[G4:~] adriaan% sudo ln -s -f /usr/bin/c++filt /usr/bin/c++filt3

2, I noticed that "otool" crashes with a signal 11 when doing disassemblies. Of course, this doesn't influence gpc compilations as such.

3. The new "as" assembler and "ld" linker provide support for "smart-linking" (dead-code stripping), which results in smaller executables. This is a very exciting feature and I am doing my best to make this work with gpc.

4. For reasons of "higher policy" the new tools cannot be installed on Mac OS X 10.2.x. If you don't want to buy Mac OS 10.3, I suggest you download the latest Apple assembler and linker from ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure. Ironically, the tools are more up-to-date than the ones in the "Xcode 1.5" download.

Installer package ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/cctools-528.dmg Source code ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/cctools-528.tar.bz2.

5. The "Xcode 1.5" tools download is 372 MB, which is not nice with a slow modem. The "Europe" mirror is so slow that the download will take at least 5 days (...). The "USA 2" mirror is reasonably fast.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os