On Monday 30 January 2006 14:15, Christopher Pinon wrote: > Egon Kocjan wrote in reply to Christopher Pinon: > >> I don't really doubt that if I updated gcc (and perhaps glibc?), then > >> I would be able to compile fish. The practical problem is that it's > >> an older machine with limited disk space. Moreover, the vast majority > >> of C programs that I want to compile on it do actually compile with > >> gcc-2.95. It's a bit sad that fish doesn't. > > > > Actually, gcc 3.4 works even with glibc 2.1, but fish wouldn't work, > > since glibc has unicode support (wide char functions) since 2.2. You > > just need to build gcc 2.95.x first on such ancient systems, before > > compiling 3.4. > > > > I have compiled fish on my debian woody installation (glibc 2.2.5) and > > it seems, that it only requires 2.2.3. You can download it here: > > http://razor.arnes.si/~ssdekocj/fish/old/ > > Thanks, Egon, for making this binary available---I'll try it out. > However, since I would have this problem every time that a new version > of fish appeared, I should consider finding another solution (asuming > that I would like to use fish on my old machine). It's good to know that > I could upgrade gcc-2.95.3 without upgrading glibc-2.2.3 as well.
Well, I volunteer for building old glibc binaries. My day job includes compiling complex g++/gcj 4.x apps for ancient distros, so it isn't much extra work for me. However, it would be nice, if you provided some feedback, since my build environment isn't the best place for testing shells... > By the > way, I've noticed that a binary gcc-3.0 is available for my (old) > distribution. Would gcc-3.0 be worth trying? You can try, 3.0 claims to have some c99 features. Be warned though, 3.0 and 3.1 were intended as development previews and they crashed quite a lot on my code. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
