GNU Pascal preconfigured_(re)

Sat, 5 Jul 1997 19:28:17 +0100 (WET DST)

On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Peter Gerwinski wrote:

> Hi, everybody!

[...]

> > What about creating a GNU Pascal distribution with an installation
> > tool which makes it extremely easy to install, and simultaeously
> > does some other configuration tasks (environment variables, RHIDE
> > configuration)?
> > [...]
> 
> I would vote for it!  Once upon a time I had started myself to write
> such an installation tool, but then there were several urgent GPC
> errors which were much more interesting ... ;-)
> 
> For DOS or for Linux?  (Or for SGI?;-)
> 

I have some preliminary stuff here to package GPC in an RPM. RPM is a
popular package manager in the Linux world. It makes upgrading a
binary distribution as easy as `rpm -U gpc-YYMMDD.i386.rpm'

The disadvantage is that a source distribution has to contain
*everything* to rebuild the compiler, i.e. GCC, so gets kinda big.

> 
>     /old/     museum
> 

:-) :-)

JanJaap
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