According to George Brewster:

I am having trouble with GPC 971001 on my RedHat linux box. It doesn't compile _anything_, but always gives the following error, regardless of what I try to compile: [...] I did not compile it myself, but used the binary package available.

Doing just that might help - and enables you to upgrade to an even more recent alpha version of GPC (see ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/). It is not that difficult to compile GPC on a Linux box.

I remember hearing it proposed somewhere that this problem might be a result of an old libc, but I haven't heard this confirmed by anybody. I think this was proposed in the gpc 1997 mailing list archive, but I never heard if it was resolved, and I don't subscribe to the list...

The conditions under which the error occured had been there, but I did not get the confirmation that recompiling GPC really solved the problem. Ken, if you are reading this, did it?

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