23-Feb-00 14:24 you wrote:
Frank Heckenbach writes:
E.g., on Linux you better build GPC yourself because of glibc incompatibilities, but you can assume gcc, binutils, libc, ncurses
please mention this is not necessary for Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd. The current gpc can be fetched from www.debian.org for the architectures alpha, arm, i386, m68k, sparc and powerpc.
This is true for KSI-Linux & SuSE as well AFAIK. So IMO to write something "if you are plan to use version of GPC not included in your distribution then vetter to build GPC yourself because..."