Hello,

Sorry to bother all of you with a question that is a bit off center for this list. After using gpc for several months I upgraded to the latest beta binary and managed to break everything. I don't know enough about the C compiler or Unix to puzzle this problem out for myself so I'm asking for whatever guidance you might be able to provide. My machine is running Linux RedHat 4.2.

I think the problem is a temporary file that is created in the first step of the compile. My guess is that it is empty, but when everything is finished failing the file is gone so I can't have a look. I did save the output to standard error in the hope that it might mean something to someone who knows about such things. Here it is:

/tmp/cca02238.i:1: numeric constant with no digits /tmp/cca02238.i:1: numeric constant with no digits /tmp/cca02238.i:1: invalid #line /tmp/cca02238.i:11: warning: missing program header /tmp/cca02238.i:11: parse error at null character

If there are other diagnostics, I'll be happy to collect them and pass them along.

Thanks much for your patience and help. I am loathe to embark on the project that would have me finding and installing the proper version of gcc so that I can compile gpc. Hopefully, it will be possible to get the binary version up and running.

Tom

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