Beta gpc1001 & RedHat 4.1 Incompatibility_(re)

Mon, 6 Oct 1997 14:28:47 -0700 (PDT)

And I can report that the Linux ELF binary of the 971001 release does not
work with RedHat 4.0 either.

Here is what I get with a compile of a canonical hello.pas:

$ gpc -v hello.pas
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux/2.7.2.1/specs
gpc version 971001(2.7.2.1)
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux/2.7.2.1/gpc-cpp -lang-pascal -v
-nocharescape -undef -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GPC__=2 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=7
-D__ELF__ -Dunix -Di386 -Dlinux -D__ELF__ -D__unix__ -D__i386__
-D__linux__ -D__unix -D__i386 -D__linux -Asystem(unix) -Asystem(posix)
-Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386) -D__i486__ hello.pas /usr/tmp/cca10174.i
GNU CPP version 971001(2.7.2.1) (i386 Linux/ELF)
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/i586-unknown-linux/include
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux/2.7.2.1/include
 /usr/include
End of search list.
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux/2.7.2.1/gpc1 /usr/tmp/cca10174.i
-quiet -dumpbase hello.pas -version -famtmpfile=hello.gpc -o
/usr/tmp/cca10174.s
GNU Pascal version 971001(2.7.2.1) (i386 Linux/ELF) compiled by GNU C
version 2.7.2.1.
/usr/tmp/cca10174.i:1: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/tmp/cca10174.i:1: numeric constant with no digits
/usr/tmp/cca10174.i:1: invalid #line
/usr/tmp/cca10174.i:2: warning: missing program header
/usr/tmp/cca10174.i:2: parse error at null character


Ken Linder said:
> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 13:36:51 -0700
> To: gpc@hut.fi
> From: "Ken Linder (KC7RAD)" 
> Subject: Beta gpc1001 & RedHat 4.1 Incompatibility
> 
> Hi again all,
> 
> Just FYI for you RedHat 4.1 users, GPC still does not play well with that
> version of RedHat.  I hope to know more when I get the most recent ver of
> RedHat here.
> 
> Thanks & keep up the GREAT work!!

-- 
George B. Smith
Stratus Western Development Center
gbs@swdc.stratus.com

George B. Smith (gbs@swdc.stratus.com)