Hi!
I am new in using linux. I have just installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 and now
i'd like to install a Gnu pascal compiler but I don't manage to do it.
>Installing GNU Pascal
>*********************
>
> The preferred way to distribute GNU software is distribution of the
>source code. However, it can be a non-trivial exercise to build GNU
>Pascal on some non-UNIX systems, so we also provide ready-to-run
>binaries for a number of platforms. See *Note binary distributions:: how
>to install a binary distribution.
>
> GPC is based on GNU CC; you will need the GCC sources to build it. It
>must be the same version as the one GPC is implemented with. Although
>you need GCC to build the GNU Pascal compiler, you don't need GCC to
>compile Pascal programs once GNU Pascal is installed. Because GNU Pascal
>shares its backend with GNU CC, it should run on any system supported by
>GNU CC. A full list of platforms supported by GNU CC can be found in
>*Note the GCC installation instructions: (gcc)Installation.
>
> Here is the generic procedure for installing GNU Pascal on a UNIX
>system. See *Note compilation notes:: for extra information needed to
>install GPC on certain platforms.
>
> 1. Unpack the source distributions.
>
> From a directory of your choice (e.g. `/usr/local/src'), unpack
> the GNU CC and GNU Pascal source distributions. This will create
> separate subdirectories for GCC and GPC.
>
> `cd' to the GPC directory (`/usr/local/src/gpc' in the example
> above) and move the contents (a subdirectory `p') to the GCC
> directory (for instance `usr/local/src/gcc-2.8.1').
>
> Next, go to the GCC source directory and apply the GCC patch
> required by GNU Pascal:
>
> % patch -s -p1 < p/diffs/gcc-2.8.1.diff
I first have had a problem at this step because i had to install patch. Now,
it is ok.
> Note 1: If you omit this step, `configure' (see below) will prompt
> you for doing this automatically.
>
> Note 2: In the example above, GCC version 2.8.1 is assumed. If
> your version of GCC is other than 2.8.1, you have to get and apply
> the appropriate patch. If you run the patch automatically from
> `configure', it will detect and work with some versions of EGCS.
>
> Note 3: All changes to GCC are surrounded by `#ifdef GPC ..
> #endif', so they should not interfere when you build a C compiler
> from this source tree.
>
> It is possible, though not required, to build the compiler in a
> directory other than the one containing the sources. (If you do
> that, you do not need to write into the GCC source directory and
> can build GPC for more than one platform from the same source
> tree.) In that case, you need a `make' that understands the VPATH
> variable. GNU make does, although at least GNU make version 3.71
> has a bug in the way it treats VPATH. GNU make version 3.75 is
> known to work.
>
> If you have built GNU Pascal previously in the same directory for a
> different target machine, do `make distclean' to delete all files
> that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is
> `Makefile'; if `make distclean' complains that `Makefile' does not
> exist, it probably means that the directory is already suitably
> clean.
>
> 2. Configuring and building GNU CC GNU Pascal is automatically
> configured with GNU CC. Configuration of GNU CC is treated in
> depth in *Note the GCC installation instructions:
> (gcc)Installation.
>
> Chdir to the GCC object directory. (This can be a directory of
> your choice, including the GCC source directory.) From there, run
> the `configure' script in the GCC source directory. If both
> directories are the same, the command
>
> % ./configure
>
> is sufficient to configure GCC in most cases. If they are
> different, something like
>
> % ../gcc-2.8.1/configure
>
> will do the job. This creates all the necessary config files,
> links and Makefile in the GCC object directory.
Now, my trouble is here. When I do this, the following message appear:
"checking cache./config.cache
checking host system type... configure : error : can not guess host type;
you must specify one"
What does it mean?
Is someone can help me?
thanks a lot in advance,
Nathalie Jarosz
