I mentioned my rts-autoconf adventures on the mailinglist; I dumped a modified RTS (rts-autoconf.tar.gz) in my homedir on agnes.dida....

Usage is straightforward: cd to your $(gpcbin)/rts directory and run ../../$(gpcsrc)/rts/configure ; make

Autoconf is the way to go for GNU software and I think GNU Pascal should use it too.

This is not finished: I have to do GPC itself, plus the result of a number of tests is not yet used in the RTS makefile. But it deals with all the -DSYSV -DNO_CASECMP -DMY_VERY_WEIRD_SYSTEM flags.

It can also do crosscompilation:

run CC=i386-go32-gcc AR=i386-go32-ar RANLIB=i386-go32-ranlib \ ../../$(gpcsrc)/rts/configure --target=i386-go32 ; make

to get a djgpp RTS (on Linux)

I also added a definition in Makefile.in to build libgpc as a shared lib. A 'make libgpc.so.2.8 CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"' results in:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 29 02:06 /usr/lib/libgpc.so -> libgpc.so.2.8* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48960 Jul 29 02:06 /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2.8*

This reduces the size of executables: -rwxr-xr-x 1 janjaap users 2856 Jul 29 02:09 hello* -rw-r--r-- 1 janjaap users 63 Jul 29 02:07 hello.pas

Statically linked, the minimum is ~33K. BTW: this will work only on ELF un*x systems and I have only tested it on Linux.

"ldd hello" shows: libgpc.so.2.8 => /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2.8 libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5.0.5 libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18

I will add this as an "--enable-shared" option to "configure"

As for your desire to release 2.7.2: I can have this finished by friday (I think ...), then it should be tested on a number of different platforms. I'm especially curious about BSD unix systems, because I developed this on Linux, which is essentially SysV.

I created a "configure.bat" for the dos world where there's no bash. Peter, you have the same with OS/2 so maybe you can take a look at it and create something simular for the EMX thing. (I ripped of binutils and GCC to create "configure.bat")

/janjaap

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