On 15 Dec 2008 at 12:16, Kevan Hashemi wrote:
Dear GPC,
http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/gpc/gpc-20070904.tar.bz2
I have this archive decompressed on my desktop.
On your "desktop" in Linux? That sounds odd to me.
It looks like I'll have to download another set of source files: those for GCC. The install instructions use GPC version 20041218 as an example and tell me to download GCC 3.4.3's source code. I don't know which version of GCC to download for the GPC version 20070904.
3.4.3 is fine - as is any later 3.x version.
After that, there are seven steps to follow for compilation. From experience, I'm guessing this process is going to take me all morning.
An exaggeration. On a modern PC, it should take no longer than 5 minutes.
All kinds of things can go wrong. I may even break my existing GCC installation by mistake.
If you don't know what you're doing, yes. If you set a "prefix" path that is well away from your system gcc's path (e.g., "--prefix=$HOME/gpc"), then there is no chance of breaking anything.
There is a 20041218 binary distribution on
http://www.gnu-pascal.de/binary/
but I can't find a newer version.
If you find one, it may not work. Much depends (unless everything is linked statically) on the system on which it was built, and how different that system (and its libraries) is from yours.
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So, the Linux user appears to be stuck with choosing between:
(1) GPC 20041218 binary distribution (10-minute install)
(2) Compiling new source code (4-hour install)
An exaggeration. As I said, on a modern PC (e.g., an Athlon XP 3800), it only takes a few minutes
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