Dear Frank,
After a three-week break, I'm back to working on a Linux binary of GPC for my users. I apologise for not answering your e-mail of 31/12/08 sooner.
Where did you find a .tar.bz.tar file???
To be strictly correct, it was a tar.bz2.tar file:
gpc346u2-sources.tar.bz2.tar
Which I downloaded from Adriaan's site:
http://adriaan.biz/gpc/gpc346u2-sources.tar.bz2
And somehow gets saved as .tar.bz2.tar on MacOS, but as a .tar.bz2 on Linux.
Generally, the older the glibc version the bianry was built with, the better
I'm going to try to compile the new sources with GPC 3.4.6 on a SLC 3.1 platform (three years old) and see what happens. The GCC libraries available in the SLC 3.1 kernel are up to and including LIBC 2.3.3, while the GPC binary I received from The Chief is looking for a minimum of LIBC 2.4. I won't ask you to explain to me the interaction between the libraries in the kernel, the compiler that built the kernel, and the compiler we use to build GPC. I'm just going to fool around for a day or two and hope to produce a more universally-compatible GPC Linux binary.
- Installation paths.
Thanks for your instructions on the installation paths. I think that was one of the chief hang-ups I had in my previous efforts to compile.
Yours, Kevan