Russ Whitaker wrote:

gpc-199808 in gcc-2.8.1 now seems to compile and install correctly

however when i tried to use it to compile the classic "Hello World" got a whole slew of error messages: " undefined reference to '_p_strlen' "

I think this is the problem Maurice Lombardi described recently. It's caused by the `inline's in rts/rtsstr.pas while compiling GPC without optimizations. Try commenting out these `inlines' and compiling GPC again -- or, better yet, compile GPC with optimizations, i.e. give `CFLAGS="-O2"' to the make command, this will result in a faster compiler, anyway. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@fjf.gnu.de http://fjf.gnu.de/ PGP and GPG keys: http://fjf.gnu.de/plan