#7 make difficulty with RH 7.2 - gcc issues

[Bob Gustafson]

Hi

This is a followup of my two previous 'make' difficulty
posts.

I also sent the comparison of gcc versions to the gcc
mailing list and received back the following email. I
don't want to get into a flame about standards or how
compilers react to errors, but I thought prcs folks
should be in on the dialog.

The reply to my gcc post was by:
Claudio == Claudio.bley <bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>

>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Gustafson <bobgus@mcs.com> writes:

Bob> My goal was to compile and install prcs-1.3.1
(a new source
Bob> code control system)

Bob> I started out with gcc version 2.96 which is
the stock
Bob> version supplied with RedHat 7.2 (for i686-pc-
linux-gnu)

Bob> ./configure 2>&1 | tee config.out make 2>&1
| tee make.out

Bob> The last few lines of make.out are:

[snipped]

As Frank Schafer already pointed out, you should never
use gcc 2.96 because there never was such a release.

Bob> It still won't make. Last bit of the make.out
file is given
Bob> below ( make 2>&1 | tee make.out).

[snipped]

Bob> Finally, I installed gcc version 2.95.3 (2.95.3
20010315
Bob> (release)) and this worked fine.

Bob> I don't know if there are bugs in the
compiler(s) or bugs in
Bob> prcs-1.3.1, but this might be a regression test
to pass for
Bob> the newer compilers.

prcs is not complying with the ANSI C++ Standard as
required by gcc v3. prcs needs to be fixed until you're
able to compile it with gcc v3.

Bob> PCRS can be obtained at http://sourceforge.net/
projects/prcs

Claudio