Hi,

> For what it's worth, I've made the changes needed so that you can do a
> build with GCC 3.3.2.  Since GCC 3.3.2 doesn't have support for producing
> PIC code, the system will built and linked entirely static.  This causes a
> huge increase in program size.  As I expected, GCC 3.3.2 has major problems
> generating valid VAX code.
>
> If you want, you can do a GCC3 build for VAX but you won't have working
> programs.  To do this, you use these options with build.sh:
>
> 	 -V HAVE_GCC3=yes -V CHECKFLIST_FLAGS=-m

This is very cool, but I'm a little confused about what you're saying. If
we were to build an entire system which is completely statically linked,
it wouldn't work, anyway? Or are you just saying that non-static stuff
won't work?

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs