[GRASS5] Re: Terminal Errors

[Glynn Clements]

Jeshua Lacock wrote:

> > Markus:  Shall I upload a tarball with instructions?
> > Yes, please. But while compiling - let's get this "-s" to work to
> > reduce the binary size. I can't believe that MacOSX is failing here.
> 
> What I meant about uploading is a tarball of ncurses 5.2, not a build of 
> pre1.  What is the ftp address again?
> 
> However, at last gcc (2.9.5 based) is available for Mac OS X, I am 
> downloading the source right now.  So hopefully it will support 
> stripping.

gcc simply passes the "-s" switch to the linker ("ld"). If the MacOS X
linker doesn't support "-s", installing gcc won't help. Installing GNU
binutils might.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>