John Gordon Ollason wrote:

Greetings,

I had to upgrade my hardware from i686 to x86_64 and my operating system from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 11. I have tried to install Gnu-Pascal by downloading several versions from the Gnu-Pascal homepage and all attempts fail Every attempt to use make terminated in errors as follows: -- . . . make[2]: *** [32/libgcc_s_32.so] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gpcbuild/gcc' make[1]: *** [libgcc.a] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gpcbuild/gcc' make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2 fail. -- I downloaded the install.gpc script and that didn't work either. The closest I have got to a working system is illustrated by the listing below. -- $ gpc -v hello.p Using built-in specs. Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.4/configure --enable-languages=pascal : (reconfigured) ../gcc-3.4.4/configure --enable-languages=pascal : (reconfigured) ../gcc-3.4.4/configure --enable-languages=pascal : (reconfigured) ../gcc-3.4.4/configure --enable-languages=pascal Thread model: posix gpc version 20070904, based on gcc-3.4.4 gpc1 -quiet -v hello.p -quiet -dumpbase hello.p -mtune=k8 -famtmpfile=/tmp/cceErexo.gpa -version -o /tmp/ccsxBXZC.s GNU Pascal version 20070904, based on gcc-3.4.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) compiled by GNU C version 4.4.1 20090725 (Red Hat 4.4.1-2). GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 GNU Pascal Compiler PreProcessor version 20070904, based on gcc-3.4.3

as -V -Qy -o /tmp/ccUtT5MU.o /tmp/ccsxBXZC.s GNU assembler version 2.19.51.0.14 (x86_64-redhat-linux) using BFD version version 2.19.51.0.14-1.fc11 20090722 ld --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_x86_64 -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/lib/../lib64/crt1.o /usr/lib/../lib64/crti.o /usr/lib/../lib64/crtbegin.o -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.4 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../lib64 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../.. -L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/../lib64 /tmp/ccUtT5MU.o -lgpc -lm -lgcc -lc -lgcc crtend.o /usr/lib/../lib64/crtn.o ld: cannot find -lgpc -- and there I am stuck.

Any constructive suggestions about what to try next would be very welcome.

You did not say what commands you use to configure and compile gpc. Let me repeat here what I wrote recently to Ernst-Ludwig Bohnen:

I would suggest the following:

..../configure --enable-languages=pascal --prefix=/usr/gnu --disable-multilib

..../make bootstrap

ATM gpc does not support multilibs, ommiting '--disable-multilib' may cause trouble. The second thing is 'make bootstrap': using gcc-3.4.x plain make is safe only if your installed gcc is the same gcc version (you may be lucky and build _may_ work, but your troubles probably are caused by missing the bootstrap part).

The compiler message suggest that you did not use '--disable-multilib'. It seems that you did not use 'make bootstrap'. Basicaly, all reports about build failure/not working install on on 64-bit systems which do not use that flags are a noise.

BTW: While using gcc-3.4.4 probably did not cause your problem, gcc-3.4.6 fixes quite a few gcc bugs so it is better to use it instead of 3.4.4 (or 3.4.3).