Khimenko Victor wrote:

23-Feb-00 15:45 you wrote:

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Khimenko Victor wrote:

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please mention this is not necessary for Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd. The current gpc can be fetched from www.debian.org for the architectures alpha, arm, i386, m68k, sparc and powerpc.

This is true for KSI-Linux & SuSE as well AFAIK. So IMO to write something "if you are plan to use version of GPC not included in your distribution then vetter to build GPC yourself because..."

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Nope. The GPC distribution that comes with SuSE-6.3 is misinstalled. It does not find the standard units (such as CRT). I am getting complaints from users about this regularly.

Hmm. Looks like two-ended sword to me :-) SuSE-6.3 DOES NOT install CRT. But 'make install' does not install CRT as well (AFAIK). So I'm not sure if only SuSE must be blamed here...

P.S. I mean 'does not install CRT in usable state' of course. You can not just 'use CRT;' fire gpc and get working program after `make install'...

Yes, you can if you compile with `--automake' (and have ncurses installed which shouldn't be a problem under Linux).

The CRT unit (as well as the other units) are installed in source form which I think is fine for a free compiler, and will be compiled when needed (using `--automake') with your favourite options (optimization, debugging, etc.). The problem with SuSE, AFAIUI (can't check myself) is that either the unit sources are not installed, or there is some path problem so the installed GPC does not find them.

Frank