Well, perhaps there was a problem because you elected to use a different directory to the default (ie. /usr/local)? OTOH, I would expect that one of the steps should have stopped with an error message, if there was a problem?

I was able to compile without problems by following the instructions verbatim (except that I chose "/temp/build" rather than "/home/fred" as the working directory and GCC 2.95.3 instead of 2.95.1). So, it does work and the instructions are correct. I have Mandrake 8.0 and build GPC based on the SuSE GCC source code (I was logged as "root", so I didn't need to worry about write privileges).

BTW, shouldn't "gpc-20020410" be "gpc-20020510", instead?

Joe.

-----Original Message----- From: toms@ncifcrf.gov [SMTP:toms@ncifcrf.gov] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:57 PM To: gpc@gnu.de; tds@fred.net Subject: almost there?

Folks:

I seem to have done most everything to compile, but

have nothing in my bin directory:

/users/tds/now/gpc/current>ls bin/ info/ i386-unknown-freebsdelf/ lib/ include/ man/ /users/tds/now/gpc/current>ls bin cpp* i386-unknown-freebsdelf-gcc* gcc* protoize* gcov* unprotoize*

Any clues about where the binary went??

I didn't find this process simple at all. I'm building a script to do the entire job automatically, because this process is pretty complicated to repeat by hand each time:

http://www.fred.net/tds/gpcbuild

What's wrong with it?

Tom

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