If you want the latest COBOL go to gnucobol (opencobol became gnu cobol like 3 releases ago).
https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/ joe On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:55 PM John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:17 AM Paul Flint <fl...@flint.com> wrote: > > > Greetings List Lurkers, > > > > How about: > > > > # apt-get install open-cobol > > > Maybe not the preferred dialect... Might be fun under Linux Mint. > > > > IIRC, it "compiles" COBOL to C and then compiles the C code. I guess this > is OK, but I wonder why they did it that way. > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > UberBashKommander > > Flint > > > > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Neale Ferguson wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 23:30:47 +0000 > > > From: Neale Ferguson <ne...@sinenomine.net> > > > Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > > > Subject: Re: just: also COBOL > > > > > > GNU COBOL is available - > > > http://download.sinenomine.net/epel/epel-7/s390x/gnucobol-2.2-1.el7.s390x.rpm > > > > > > Neale Ferguson > > > > > > On 4/7/20, 05:12, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of R P Herrold" < > > LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU on behalf of herr...@owlriver.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Rick Troth wrote: > > > > > > > Bonus package (but not new), Gnu COBOL ... > > > > > > > > rsync://chic.casita.net/opt/gnucobol-1.1/ > > > > > > > > rsync://chic.casita.net/opt/gnucobol-2.2/ > > > > > > > > The 1.1 build gets used from time to time. (32-bit Intel Linux) > > > > The 2.2 build is untested. > > > > > > There was an OpenCOBOL in Fedora through their 23 release ... > > > so until about five years ago. The package no longer builds > > > due to the removal of 'db4 support' -- Red Hat / Fedora had > > > lots of words about license changes which I did not see were > > > true, but * shrug * Their circus, their monkeys > > > > > > There is a fairly mechanical writeup in pushing an OpenCOBOL 1. > > > forward into the 2. product at [1]. Once I get a build solved > > > under ClefOS 8 [in process], I'll see about getting it in > > > there as well as in back into ClefOS 7 > > > > > > > > > -- Russ herrold > > > > > > 1. > > https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/cobol/thread/d4be157a/ > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO > > LINUX-390 or visit > > > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > > or visit > > > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > > > > Kindest Regards, > > > > > > > > ☮ Paul Flint > > (802) 479-2360 Home > > (802) 595-9365 Cell > > > > /************************************ > > Based upon email reliability concerns, > > please send an acknowledgement in response to this note. > > > > Paul Flint > > 17 Averill Street > > Barre, VT > > 05641 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > > visit > > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > > -- > People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
