Hi, Oliver!

(Note: Since your last email to the list, the list has moved from gpc@hut.fi to gpc@gnu.de.)

The environmental variable GPC_EXEC_PREFIX does not seem to work, setting the dir with -B as a command option helps.

Sanity check: Did you export or perhaps only set the environment variable? With `bash', the difference is

GPC_EXEC_PREFIX=/gpc/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.2/2.8.1 # wrong

vs. export GPC_EXEC_PREFIX=/gpc/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.2/2.8.1 # correct

By compiling a little test program (no uses etc) a fatal error occured:

ld32: FATAL 9: I/O error (-lgpc): No such file or directory

You might try to give an explicit `-L' to the path where `libgpc.a' is installed:

gpc -L /gpc/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.2/2.8.1 foo.pas

Or you can use the C_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

export C_LIBRARY_PATH=/gpc/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.2/2.8.1

But normally this should not be necessary, so something is wrong with your installation (and thus in the binary distribution on Agnes).

I've copied the files from /gpc/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.2/2.8.1 into the bin-dir, but it doesn't helped.

You can try and copy `libgpc.a' into the lib dir.

GCC v2.7 is already installed.

Then it should be more-or-less easy to compile your own GPC on that system. If you want to try that, get egcs-1.1.2 and the GPC source and follow the installation instructions. For patching the GCC source, the file gcc-egcs-1.1.1.diff (aka gcc-egcs-2.91.60.diff) works for egcs-1.1.2.

Hope this helps,

Peter