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RE: Re: eCos on 80186?


Hello from Gregg C Levine
What about using the tools for 16 bit arches from DJ Delorie? Oh he
claims they are basically unsupported, I don't know if they won't
work.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org [mailto:ecos-discuss-
> owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Chris Gray
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:17 AM
> To: Grant Edwards; Paul D. DeRocco
> Cc: eCos Discuss
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: eCos on 80186?
> 
> On Thursday 24 June 2004 05:44, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:34:52PM -0400, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> > > If you can find an old copy of Borland C++ Builder or earlier,
> > > you could see what happens when you try to feed some eCos code
> > > through it. My guess is that you'll have the biggest headaches
> > > with the makefiles, rather than the C.
> >
> > Firstly, why would changing C compilers cause make to break?
> 
> Borland had their own version of make, and from what I remember
(from my own
> 80186 days) it was pretty restricted even compared to standard un*x
version
> of make back then. It wouldn't have a snowflake in hell's chance of
running a
> makefile written for GNU make. So OP isn't going to be able to use
Borland C+
> + Builder as such, only the compiler component (invoked from GNU
make).
> 
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