Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!kcwellsch From: kcwellsch@watmath.waterloo.edu Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.software Subject: Re: gas-inspired questions. Message-ID: <29542@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 18:17:51 GMT Sender: kcwellsch@watmath.waterloo.edu Reply-To: kcwellsch@watmath.waterloo.edu Distribution: uw Lines: 25 From: Ken Wellsch> "man gas" says to use /usr/software/gnu/lib/gcc-as. > Why is it "gcc-as" if the man page is for "gas"? Apparently GNU feels you shouldn't need to use the assembler directly. > Why is it under /usr/man/manp instead of under /software/gnu/man? Old public holdover ... I moved this page to man1 last week. >Why does it refer to "/usr/software", instead of to "/software". Old man page when we still called it /usr/software. > Why is the program under "lib" and not under "bin"? > Isn't "lib" for "*.a" files? lib is where compilers etc. often put their "passes" and gcc-as goes there too. > And why doesn't /software/gnu/lib even exist? GAS was moved to the GCC package. I've created the link gas to the lib location, but I should probably delete the man page as it's a quicky from before my time and mostly useless.