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Frank Heckenbach writes:

Frank> Khimenko Victor wrote:

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23-Feb-00 15:45 you wrote:

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Khimenko Victor wrote:

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please mention this is not necessary for Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd. The current gpc can be fetched from www.debian.org for the architectures alpha, arm, i386, m68k, sparc and powerpc.

This is true for KSI-Linux & SuSE as well AFAIK. So IMO to write something "if you are plan to use version of GPC not included in your distribution then vetter to build GPC yourself because..."

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Nope. The GPC distribution that comes with SuSE-6.3 is misinstalled. It does not find the standard units (such as CRT). I am getting complaints from users about this regularly.

Hmm. Looks like two-ended sword to me :-) SuSE-6.3 DOES NOT install CRT. But 'make install' does not install CRT as well (AFAIK). So I'm not sure if only SuSE must be blamed here...

P.S. I mean 'does not install CRT in usable state' of course. You can not just 'use CRT;' fire gpc and get working program after `make install'...

Frank> Yes, you can if you compile with `--automake' (and have ncurses Frank> installed which shouldn't be a problem under Linux).

Frank> The CRT unit (as well as the other units) are installed in source Frank> form which I think is fine for a free compiler, and will be compiled Frank> when needed (using `--automake') with your favourite options Frank> (optimization, debugging, etc.). The problem with SuSE, AFAIUI Frank> (can't check myself) is that either the unit sources are not Frank> installed, or there is some path problem so the installed GPC does Frank> not find them.

I'm currently beta testing gpc for the next SuSE release. Since I'm not really using gpc myself, could you help me what I should test, so that SuSE 6.4 will have a working gpc?

We're planning to use gpc 19991030 with gcc 2.95.2.

I just did the following tests with some of the demos: gromit:/usr/doc/packages/gpc/demos:[0]$ gpc --automake crtdemo.pas gromit:/usr/doc/packages/gpc/demos:[0]$ ./a.out

And the output looks fine.

I also run the test suite (installed in /usr/doc/packages/gpc/test) and got only a few failures:

TEST constovfl.pas: failed: failed: 0 /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lgmp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden collect2: ld returned 1 exit status TEST dialec3.pas: failed TEST dialec4.pas: OK /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lgmp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden collect2: ld returned 1 exit status TEST dialec5.pas: failed /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lgmp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden collect2: ld returned 1 exit status TEST dialec6.pas: failed TEST fjf149.pas: Failed: 64 TEST fjf83.pas: failed: Failed /tmp/cc6RgcsV.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/cc6RgcsV.s:115: Error: operands given don't match any known 386 instruction TEST goto4.pas: failed

All other tests had an OK printed. I don't think that those failures are serious, especially since I don't have libgmp installed on my system.

Looking over the discussion again, Khimenko mentioned:

Hmm. Looks like two-ended sword to me :-) SuSE-6.3 DOES NOT install CRT. But 'make install' does not install CRT as well (AFAIK). So I'm not sure if only SuSE must be blamed here...

P.S. I mean 'does not install CRT in usable state' of course. You can not just 'use CRT;' fire gpc and get working program after `make install'...

Is there any other command (beside 'make install'[1]) that should be issued? I'm now checking the sources myself

Btw. I double checked that the units are installed: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-suse-linux/2.95.2/units /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-suse-linux/2.95.2/units/crt.inc /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-suse-linux/2.95.2/units/crt.pas /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-suse-linux/2.95.2/units/crtc.c /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-suse-linux/2.95.2/units/crtc.h [...]

Thanks for your help and a great work!

Andreas

Footnotes: [1] I didn't found anything while RTFMing.