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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I have egcs-2.91.66 in BL2 because Steven said we needed it to compile 
(along with binutils, gmake, glibc and linuxinc).  It came from the 
/slakware directory of Slackware 7.1,

There is also gcc-2.95.2 in the /contribs directory.

I recall some mention of the latter being better.

I am trying to compile ghostscript, which says you need gcc 2.58, 2.63, or 
2.7.21 or later (intermediate versions have a bug). Configure said C 
preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check.

Should I be using gcc-2.95.2 instead?  Is egcs better for some things?

Ghostcript 8.50 (precompiled for Windows) can handle pdf 1.5 and JBIG2. 
Also lets you edit makefile to use device 'vesa' (display to SVGAlib?). 
The SW71 version (5.10) includes device libvga (not very high resolution 
or color).

I think I will need a lot of help with this.  Would it be useful if I
shared the result even though I am compiling on a system with glibc 2.2.5 
from SW81, not the original SW71 version?

If people want to help I will post my config.log of error messages.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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