Status of ga68 in recent O/S package systems, and local builds

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

This note reports O/S package systems that now include ga68:

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	System [and CPUs]		Package name(s)
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	Fedora 45 Rawhide [x86_64]	gcc-algol68 libga68-static
					[gcc-16 family]

	Ubuntu 26.04 [arm64, ppc64le,	gcc-15 gcc-16
	risc-v64, s390x, x86_64]
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The only one of those on a big-endian system is the s390x version; I
was happy to find that all of my own Algol 68 test suite passed all of
its tests, and got identical output to that on x86_64.

Perhaps list readers can add to that list.

On Fedora, I found it necessary to install the libga68-static package;
without it, linking of freshly compiled Algol 68 code fails.

Checks on the latest DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and
OpenSUSE releases have not found ga68 packages.

I have done successful manual builds of ga68 on these systems:

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	System				Compiler version(s)
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	CentOS 7.5 [x86_64]		ga68-16, ga68-17
	Debian 12.14 [arm64]		ga68-16, ga68-17
	Debian 14 (forky/sid) [ppc64le]	ga68-17
	DragonFlyBSD 6.4.2 [x86_64]	ga68-17
	FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT [amd64]	ga68-17
	Ubuntu 24.04 [x86_64]		ga68-16, ga68-17
	Ubuntu 26.04 [x86_64]		ga68-16, ga68-17
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The second of those is a physical Raspberry Pi, with 4-core 2.4GHz
Cortex-A76 CPU, about the size of a deck of playing cards, but a bit
thicker.

A gcc-17 build attempt on OpenBSD 7.9, released 19-May-2026, failed to
build ga68: the native gcc compiler is version 15.2.0 (a big jump from
the gcc-8.4.0 on OpenBSD 7.8), but alas, there is no corresponding g++
compiler.  Attempts to use clang-19, clang-20, and clang-21 to build
compilers from the gcc-17-20260517 snapshot on that system have all
failed; it appears that a version of a genuine older g++ compiler is
needed to build a current g++.

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