Hmmm...this thread is growing like a loooooong story... :-)
To continue: I resumed gmake and now the rts part of p has been built! I got a few errors which did not cause s stop of gmake, I'm not sure if they are a problem (should I worry about them?):
I would worry about them. But it's possible that they go away after you installed gpc and re-do the gpc compilation. You can check if something is wrong with the gpc driver program if you start it with option -v for the program issuing the errors. There should be either a "-D__BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN__" or a "-D__BYTES_LITTLE_ENDIAN__" in the command line for the preprocessor. Similarly for BITS and WORD.
These errors mysteriously disappeared in the second pass... So I did the install and starting testing with the programs in the directory p/test/misc
Fibonacci works fine (wow, finally gpc compiles something for me...)
...but: txtfile and binfile both crash with:
?GPC runtime error: (gpc-rts) _p_initfdr() has not been called for file (#701)
Now what's that???????
I suppose it has something to do with the "bind" functionality in gpc for binding an external file to a variable???
Nick