On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
does anyone know who wrote the gpc-port for FreeBSD?
Last November Marc van Woerkom van.woerkom@netcologne.de posted here saying he was working on a FreeBSD port, so maybe it's by him, but I don't know for sure. (Where did you find the port, BTW?)
You will find the port on any freebsd-mirror, for example ftp4.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports I run gpc on FreeBSD 4.1 Release.
There are two small bugs in it, which (I believe) can easily be corrected by someone, who knows how to. But they should be fixed, because they might keep people off using gpc.
If you can't find the author, please post the bug reports (and possibly fixes) here. Maybe some other FreeBSD user reads this and can do the fixes...
O.K, I will try to explain: usually you install a port by ( 0) opening an internet-connection if you do not have all sources) 1) changing into the port-directory and 2) typing # make && make install
And here the bugs: a) gpc needs linux-base to run (this is a linux emulation). If this is already installed, you have to deinstall it before you run the gpc-port b) Step 2 produces some sort of error. You will have to type # make deinstall and then again # make install Then everything will work out fine. Of course I do not have the least idea, what is the reason of this.
Anyway I am quite happy to have a GPL'ed PASCAL-compiler. I am "testing" it with some programming lecture at "fernuni-hagen" .
Cheers
Uli.
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