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

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