Re: Help Installing gcc

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:38:46PM +0100, phil wrote:
> hi
> 
> i'm trying to compile gcc with support for pascal

Pascal support hasn't been integrated into the main GCC sources yet.
The two biggest (open source) Pascal compilers I know of are GNU Pascal
and Free Pascal:

    http://www.gnu-pascal.de/
    http://www.freepascal.org/

They are fairly compared here:

    http://www.freepascal.org/faq.html#FPandGNUPascal


> .//libiberty/libiberty.a what gives this file?

Several projects (GCC, binutils, GDB) all build this library.

> also what other
> packages do i need to compile gcc, i have automake, autoconf, make, gcc,
> gpc, bison,gettext, bind-utils, binutils and gperf. my machine is
> i686-pc-linux-gnu running red-hat 7.3.

If you're running a recent distro like RH 7, there are probably prebuilt RPMs
out there for either of the two projects above.  Building GNU Pascal requires
a rebuild of GCC from source, but you shouldn't need to do that yourself.

Last I heard, GNU Pascal requires an old (2.x) version of GCC to use.
The 2.x series is unsupported; all work has been going into 3.x for some
time now.  That may be reason enough to not use GNU Pascal unless they
give prebuilt binaries.


Luck++;
Phil

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