At 08:04 AM 10/29/96 -0800, you wrote:

hi,

i download this file gpc-1.1p2-linuxelf.tar.gz from some ftp site, and i'm confused. The below executable is in this file, but there is no source.

Sources, info etc.: follow the pointers at the homepage: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/

-rwxr-xr-x root/root 48100 Dec 20 09:53 1995 usr/bin/gpc

i get the following error on a simple pascal program. i don't know pascal so i'm assuming it right

/lib/libm.so.5.0.5: undefined reference to `__errno_location'

program Mytestfile (input, output); procedure HI; begin {GotoXY(1, 23);} {WRITE("Hi");} end;

BEGIN { main program }

HI;

END.

I would not expect to much output from this program ;-)

next, i then downlaod the latest and i'm still getting the same error :<.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50348 Aug 28 14:15 /usr/bin/gpc*

rf600:~$ gpc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2/specs gpc version 1.2(2.7.2) rf600:~$ gpc tst.pas /lib/libm.so.5.0.5: undefined reference to `__errno_location'

Are you sure you get an error when _compiling_ your test program, not when _running_ it ???? The GPC compiler itself does not use libm.so in any way, so this error message doesn't make any sense. But programs compiled with GPC always use libm.so

any and all help will be greatly appreciated

As far as I can see, (1) you don't have a GPC problem, but your version of libm and libc don't match or (2) you have a very old/new libc version which has an errno definition incompatible with the one used by the GPC precompiled binary. The 2.6.3 based GPC binary is linked against libc.so.5.0.9 (the one from Slackware 3.0) while the 2.7.2 based GPC binaries are linked against libc.so.5.2.18. I believe libm is version 5.0.5 in both cases. You can check your installed libc version:

ZOO-station:~$ ldd /usr/bin/gpc libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18

The dynamic loader is complaining because it cannot resolve a symbol, "__errno_location" which is indeed undefined in libm.so:

ZOO-station:~$ nm /lib/libm.so.5 | grep __errno_location

U __errno_location

("U" means undefined). But this symbol is defined in <errno.h> and should be present in libc.so:

ZOO-station:~$ nm /lib/libc.so.5 | grep __errno_location

0000fe4c W __errno_location

To make sure it's not GPC who's causing trouble, try compiling a small piece of C which uses libm.so, i.e.:

int main(void) { printf("sine of 0 = %f\n", sin(0)); }

If it's the problem described by (1) then this should produce the same sort of errors.

Usually, a libc.so is backwards compatible, but if you have a libc.so < 5.0.9 it may be time to upgrade. If will not use experimental libc versions (5.3.x, 5.4.x) to produce the precompiled GPC binaries, because I don't want to force people to upgrade to these versions. If you use an experimental libc.so version, see if the errno definition in <errno.h> has changed since 5.2.18 (I cannot verify this -- I don't have it). If so, you may have to rebuild libgpc.a because it uses the errno definition.

In the 5.2.18 <errno.h> it's defined like this:

#if defined(_POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS) || defined(_REENTRANT) extern int* __errno_location __P((void)); #define errno (*__errno_location ()) #else extern int errno; #endif

Hope this helps, otherwise it might be useful to see your results for the tests described above.

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