Problems with gpc_(re)

Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:14:58 +0000 (WET)

> Filename: unstable/binary-i386/devel/gpc_2.0-3.deb
            ^^^^^^^^
Thank you very much ;-)

> 
> >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?
> 
> The instalation does not provide any "libgpc.a", only "libgpc.so.2".
> 

Did you symlink libgpc.so -> libgpc.so.2 (or whatever the exact libname is) ?

I played with a shared RTS library in some pre-2.0 beta's but decided not to
put it in the 2.0 release because it would require libgpc.so to be distributed
with all GPC compiled programs and I feared confusion. Assuming you don't have
one of these beta's (they had 96XXXX version numbers), my guess is that the
Debian maintainer  decided to put this feature back in.
Maybe you should ask him.

> Can I use some switch (-static or ...) to use libgpc.so.2 instead of
> libgpc.a?
> 

No, -static would search for a (nonexisting) libgpc.a

If all else fails, you may have to link
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.7.2.1/libgpc.a -> /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2, but
that's very cruel :-(

> Thank you for your help.
> 

Happy hacking,

JanJaap

Jan-Jaap van der Heijden (janjaap@wit381304.student.utwente.nl)