Problems with gpc

Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:40:02 +0100 (MET)

According to Pedro Quaresma de Almeida:
> 	I have installed GNU Pascal compiler, apparently without any
> problem.
> 
> bash# dpkg -i gpc_2.0-3.deb
> (Reading database ... 23654 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace gpc (using gpc_2.0-3.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement gpc ...
> Setting up gpc ...
> 
> bash# dpkg -i libgpc2_2.0-3.deb 
> (Reading database ... 23654 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libgpc2 (using libgpc2_2.0-3.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libgpc2 ...
> Setting up libgpc2 ...
> bash# ldconfig

This looks like a Debian distribution.  I didn't know that there exists
a Debian distribution of gpc-2.0 ...

> but when I try to use it ...
> 
> bash$ gpc Ackerman.p
> ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory
> bash$ 

Obviously, the `gpc' driver program cannot locate the library `libgpc.a'.
>From the installation log I have the impression that you did not install
`libgpc.a' but a file named `libgpc2.a'.  Perhaps both are the same, and
it suffices to link `libgpc.a' to `libgpc2.a' in your `/usr/lib/' directory
or whereever you keep your libraries?

In any case it should solve your problems (without warranty, of course ;-)
to install an "original" binary distribution of gpc-2.0 like those on

    ftp://kampi.hut.fi/jtv/gnu-pascal/binary/

We provide at binaries for i586-linux (elf), i586-linuxaout, and
i586-linuxoldld.  The "i586" means that some optimization have been
done for the Pentium; the compiler runs fine on an i486 or 80386 and
can produce code for all of these processors.  To install such a
binary package, cd to the top directory and "tar xzf" the archive, e.g.

    myhost:/# tar xzf /usr/src/gpc-2.0.i586-linux.tar.gz

Good luck,

    Peter

  Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201]
       maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]

Peter Gerwinski (peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de)