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PDOS/386 self-hosting
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Paul Edwards
2020-04-28 07:22:52 UTC
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A Vietnamese programmer, Dat, has fixed a bug
in PDPCLIB that was preventing ld.exe from
fully working.

That bug fix means that PDOS/386 is now
self-hosting, a fantastic milestone!

ar.exe is still not working though, and we
don't have "make" ported to PDOS/386 yet,
so you can't rebuild PDPCLIB on PDOS/386.

BFN. Paul.
Paul Edwards
2020-04-28 07:25:01 UTC
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Post by Paul Edwards
That bug fix means that PDOS/386 is now
self-hosting, a fantastic milestone!
ie you can use PDOS/386 to make changes
to PDOS/386, because micro-emacs is working
on PDOS/386 too.

BFN. Paul.
Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
2020-04-28 11:57:04 UTC
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Post by Paul Edwards
A Vietnamese programmer, Dat, has fixed a bug
in PDPCLIB that was preventing ld.exe from
fully working.
Congrats on your milestone!
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James Harris
2020-04-28 14:17:44 UTC
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On 28/04/2020 08:22, Paul Edwards wrote:

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Post by Paul Edwards
That bug fix means that PDOS/386 is now
self-hosting, a fantastic milestone!
Hearty congratulations! A key step forward!
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James Harris
Paul Edwards
2020-05-04 18:05:28 UTC
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Post by Paul Edwards
ar.exe is still not working though, and we
don't have "make" ported to PDOS/386 yet,
so you can't rebuild PDPCLIB on PDOS/386.
Actually, ar.exe was working - I did an
invalid test. So now PDPCLIB can be rebuilt
on PDOS/386 too! Brilliant!

BFN. Paul.
Paul Edwards
2020-05-04 18:08:35 UTC
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Post by Paul Edwards
ar.exe is still not working though, and we
don't have "make" ported to PDOS/386 yet,
so you can't rebuild PDPCLIB on PDOS/386.
Actually, ar.exe was working - I did an
invalid test. So now PDPCLIB can be rebuilt
on PDOS/386 too! Brilliant!
I added another batch file to PDPCLIB to get
around the problem of no "make" available yet.

BFN. Paul.
muta...@gmail.com
2021-04-22 00:32:04 UTC
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Post by Paul Edwards
Post by Paul Edwards
ar.exe is still not working though, and we
don't have "make" ported to PDOS/386 yet,
so you can't rebuild PDPCLIB on PDOS/386.
Actually, ar.exe was working - I did an
invalid test. So now PDPCLIB can be rebuilt
on PDOS/386 too! Brilliant!
Apparently I didn't update the group that there was a
problem building ld386.exe on PDOS/386, and with a
dodgy ld386, it wasn't really a viable development
environment.

Thanks to a Slovakian who narrowed the problem down
to the right area, I was able to pore over the problematic
code, and after a few attempts I was finally able to solve
that problem. Code has been checked in.

binutils 2.14a can now rebuild itself too! For the a.out
target, anyway.

BFN. Paul.

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