Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ACK question
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From: mcconnel@hydra.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell)
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In article <84OT6.2848$GT2.66783@telenews.teleline.es>,
Adam <minix_user@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi group,
>
>This might come twice; server problems.
>
>When i was compiling a .c-file with this command:
>
># cc -c test.c
># cc test.o -o test.bin -oformat binary -Ttext 0x100000
>
> i get the message:
>"cc: binary: can't compile, no transformation applies"
>What is this? I now that the command is valid in gcc, so do i have to
>compile it under an OS with gcc?
>

cc -o test.bin test.c

probably would have worked fine. Minix's cc is not gcc. It takes different 
command line flags than gcc does. Read about it in man 1 cc.

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