Subject: Re: running p5c (was Re: Plan to Update GPC)
From: "Gale Paeper" <gpaeper@empirenet.com>
Date: 8/16/20 11:19 am
To: "Gnu Pascal" <gpc@gnu.de>

> On Aug 15, 2020, at 5:58 PM, Thomas Schneider <schneidt@mail.nih.gov> wrote:

[snip]

> I removed all control-Ms (with my 'no-m' or 'nom' script,
> http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/ftp/nom)
>
> Now the no-m copy nomconfigure runs:
>
> % nomconfigure
> *** No flip was found
> flip does not exist, has PATH been set up?
> attempting to make it
> nomconfigure: ./bin/make_flip: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> *** Unable to make flip

I suspect you're getting non-unix text file issues somewhere too with that problem.

As a general observation, all the text files in the distribution should have a unix text file conversion/sanitizing process run on them just as a preventative to avoid any further problems with this type of issue.

There's something of a chicken or egg irony with the flip tool. If you need a working copy of the tool to fix the source code text files needed to build it but you don't have one, how are you going to get the needed tool built? And if you have some other means of fixing the text files why bother with building a different tool that you don't really need for the project?

> *** No ip_pascal was found

But this is the issue that will require a lot of work to get everything working - none of the required pascal compilers (gpc version 20070904 or IP Pascal) have working implementations on non-ancient MacOS versions. The configure --help text implies fpc is a suitable pascal compiler; however, trying to use fpc won't even get past the configure compiler availability checking. Once past that, you're still missing the fpc tuned build directory like exists for gpc and IP Pascal.

I don't have any idea on how difficult or easy it would be to get it working with fpc on MacOS.

Gale Paeper
gpaeper@empirenet.com

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