On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Joe Broxson wrote:

> I have downloaded the source tree
> (1.2) and don't know what to do with it now.  (It's in the form .aa .ab
> .ac, etc...)

It's a split-apart gzip'd tar file. Try something like

    cat whatever.[a-z][a-z] | gzcat | tar -x

> Second.  I tried to compile a GCC as a VAX-ULTRIX cross compiler.

Don't compile C++ or objective-C when you're compiling a cross-compiler.

This will only work for the kernel and static executables, BTW,
and even for that you may need the patch on my patches page:
<http://www2.portal.ca/~cjs>.

cjs

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