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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] egcs-2.91.66 vs gcc-2.95.2
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:38:08 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

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?

I ran across a website mentioning that someone compiled GS 7.05 with gcc 2.95.2. It is a 3.3MB package, much larger than egcs, and had some bug(s) that prevented it from compiling the kernel (for which they suggested using 2.7.2.3 instead - 792K for C without C++). I might first try 2.7.2.3 because it is much smaller. If that does not work, removepkg and installpkg egcs back, they say.

I gs likely to need c++ compilation? The files I looked at ended in .c not .cpp but does "/lib/cpp" mean it needs to compile cpp (c++)?

Sindi




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