Hi gpc fans,
I think many people are bullfighting with gpc-installation on various platforms, me as well. It's a hard job. Hence I decided to write a tool trying to do all the work from scratch automatically. The tool (install.gpc) is intended to work for UNIX/Linux systems:
System Status ----------------------------------------------- Linux SuSE 7.2 OK Linux SuSE 6.3 OK, makeinfo ver. 1.68 didn't work, needs 4.0 SunOS See URLs below IRIX See URLs below, same problem as for SunOS HP-UX Wrong make version, delayed AIX Not tested up to now, delayed
The current status is that install.gpc seems to work fine only on Suse 6.3 & 7.2. Initial problems were due to an outdated makeinfo. Everybody who is interested may download the tool from: http://www.desy.de/~bohnen/gpc/install.gpc make it executeble and try it out (first time I recommend to do it as a simple user). Simply type: install.gpc <RET> to install gpc from scratch (default is pgc-20010623 with gcc-2.95.2). Type install.gpc -h for how to modify defaults and control verbosity, etc.
Have a look on pre/post mortem log files written by install.gpc.
http://www.desy.de/~bohnen/gpc/install.log.SUN http://www.desy.de/~bohnen/gpc/install.log.IRIX http://www.desy.de/~bohnen/gpc/install.log.HP-UX (no gmake)
Maybe there is somebody who knows the reason for abnormal end of installation. Hints and suggestions are welcome to make install.gpc run more successful on those systems.
Ernst-Ludwig
Attached is a diff to make the installer work with FreeBSD... please note that it DOESN'T require wget, just gmake.
Also, don't forget that with this script, an su root just isn't enough.
Hi Stephen,
made the changes to meet your requirements, but could NOT test the result. I changed calls to make into gmake within the script, so we wouldn't need the statement 'alias make=/usr/local/bin/gmake' anymore, if you are sure that gmake exists somewhere in your PATH.
Ernst-Ludwig
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Stephen Hurd wrote:
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