12-May-00 14:52 you wrote:

-----Message d'origine----- De : Tomasz Kowaltowski tomasz@dcc.unicamp.br б└ : Nathalie Jarosz njarosz@fr.packardbell.org Date : vendredi 12 mai 2000 13:28 Objet : Re: help!

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I'm not an expert on this, but I remember that I installed on my Linux (RedHat 6.1) two RPM packages:

         gpc-19990118-1.i386.rpm
         gpc-extras-19990118-1.i386.rpm

I have install all but it doesn't run anyway! My Linux is mandrake 7.0, it is maybe the problem?...

Mandarke is NOT compatibe with RedHat despite claims - you need less manual tweaks then in case with SuSE or Debian but ONLY RedHat is compatible with RedHat (even in this case only if you are lucky enough - see below). ESPECIALLY for GPC: Manrake traditionly using very "advanced" (read: barely working) versions of gcc and gpc relies HEAVILY on gcc.

If you DO NOT have RPM for EXACTLY your distribution then better (=easier) to recompile GPC from sources. And when I'm saying EXACTLY I mean exactly: RPM for RedHat 5.0 WILL NOT work in RedHat 5.2, RPM for RedHat 6.0 WILL NOT work in RedHat 6.2, etc. In some cases even "RedHat x.y" can be incompatible with "RedHat x.y with updates" :-(( Usually it can be easily tracked down and fixed by knowleadge person (almost any package for any distribution can be forced to work in almost any other distribution) but just "rpm -Uvh" quite often will not work. When you are compiling program from sources autoconf usually can find and compensate most differences automagically but rpm/dpkg/apt is NOT sophisticated enough. That's why we recommend to start from sources when binaries do not work for you.

To Russ Whitaker: may be something about this should be added to FAQ ?

-----Message d'origine----- De : Peter Gerwinski peter@gerwinski.de б└ : Nathalie Jarosz njarosz@fr.packardbell.org Cc : gpc@gnu.de gpc@gnu.de Date : vendredi 12 mai 2000 11:18 Objet : Re: help!

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Please install the C compiler for your system from a file of the type gcc-something-XrhY_i386(1).rpm. This package will either contain the needed libraries or have a dependency that will tell you what else has to be installed. (The same dependency should then be added to gpc-19990118-2rh6_i386(1).rpm.)

there is no gcc-something-XrhY_i386(1).rpm. But I think it is not the problem bacause I have had to install some gcc thnigs to run gpc...

Is anybody have already had the same problem or something similar?...

Nathalie