Gnu-pascal.
Get the source-rpm from:
ftp://ftp.agnes.dida.physik-uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/current
and do a rpm --rebuild on it.
/M
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Emmanuel Par� wrote:
> Check out http://www.freepascal.org it run whell on my system.. and it come
> into *.rpm format.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathalie Jarosz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 8:11 AM
> Subject: [Cooker] installation of pascal compiler
>
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am new in using linux. I have just installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 and now
> > i'd like to install a Gnu pascal compiler but I don't manage to do it.
> >
> > >Installing GNU Pascal
> > >*********************
> > >
> > > The preferred way to distribute GNU software is distribution of the
> > >source code. However, it can be a non-trivial exercise to build GNU
> > >Pascal on some non-UNIX systems, so we also provide ready-to-run
> > >binaries for a number of platforms. See *Note binary distributions:: how
> > >to install a binary distribution.
> > >
> > > GPC is based on GNU CC; you will need the GCC sources to build it. It
> > >must be the same version as the one GPC is implemented with. Although
> > >you need GCC to build the GNU Pascal compiler, you don't need GCC to
> > >compile Pascal programs once GNU Pascal is installed. Because GNU Pascal
> > >shares its backend with GNU CC, it should run on any system supported by
> > >GNU CC. A full list of platforms supported by GNU CC can be found in
> > >*Note the GCC installation instructions: (gcc)Installation.
> > >
> > > Here is the generic procedure for installing GNU Pascal on a UNIX
> > >system. See *Note compilation notes:: for extra information needed to
> > >install GPC on certain platforms.
> > >
> > > 1. Unpack the source distributions.
> > >
> > > From a directory of your choice (e.g. `/usr/local/src'), unpack
> > > the GNU CC and GNU Pascal source distributions. This will create
> > > separate subdirectories for GCC and GPC.
> > >
> > > `cd' to the GPC directory (`/usr/local/src/gpc' in the example
> > > above) and move the contents (a subdirectory `p') to the GCC
> > > directory (for instance `usr/local/src/gcc-2.8.1').
> > >
> > > Next, go to the GCC source directory and apply the GCC patch
> > > required by GNU Pascal:
> > >
> > > % patch -s -p1 < p/diffs/gcc-2.8.1.diff
> >
> > I first have had a problem at this step because i had to install patch.
> Now,
> > it is ok.
> >
> > > Note 1: If you omit this step, `configure' (see below) will prompt
> > > you for doing this automatically.
> > >
> > > Note 2: In the example above, GCC version 2.8.1 is assumed. If
> > > your version of GCC is other than 2.8.1, you have to get and apply
> > > the appropriate patch. If you run the patch automatically from
> > > `configure', it will detect and work with some versions of EGCS.
> > >
> > > Note 3: All changes to GCC are surrounded by `#ifdef GPC ..
> > > #endif', so they should not interfere when you build a C compiler
> > > from this source tree.
> > >
> > > It is possible, though not required, to build the compiler in a
> > > directory other than the one containing the sources. (If you do
> > > that, you do not need to write into the GCC source directory and
> > > can build GPC for more than one platform from the same source
> > > tree.) In that case, you need a `make' that understands the VPATH
> > > variable. GNU make does, although at least GNU make version 3.71
> > > has a bug in the way it treats VPATH. GNU make version 3.75 is
> > > known to work.
> > >
> > > If you have built GNU Pascal previously in the same directory for a
> > > different target machine, do `make distclean' to delete all files
> > > that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is
> > > `Makefile'; if `make distclean' complains that `Makefile' does not
> > > exist, it probably means that the directory is already suitably
> > > clean.
> > >
> > > 2. Configuring and building GNU CC GNU Pascal is automatically
> > > configured with GNU CC. Configuration of GNU CC is treated in
> > > depth in *Note the GCC installation instructions:
> > > (gcc)Installation.
> > >
> > > Chdir to the GCC object directory. (This can be a directory of
> > > your choice, including the GCC source directory.) From there, run
> > > the `configure' script in the GCC source directory. If both
> > > directories are the same, the command
> > >
> > > % ./configure
> > >
> > > is sufficient to configure GCC in most cases. If they are
> > > different, something like
> > >
> > > % ../gcc-2.8.1/configure
> > >
> > > will do the job. This creates all the necessary config files,
> > > links and Makefile in the GCC object directory.
> >
> > Now, my trouble is here. When I do this, the following message appear:
> > "checking cache./config.cache
> > checking host system type... configure : error : can not guess host type;
> > you must specify one"
> >
> > What does it mean?
> > Is someone can help me?
> >
> > thanks a lot in advance,
> >
> > Nathalie Jarosz
> >
> >
>
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