Dear all,

I have an old system running slackware 7.1, with security fixes and
various upgrades, but still 7.1 at its core.

I have run into a compliation problem installing Sablot-1.0.2,
although the problem actually seems to lie more with the (ancient)
C/C++ compiler, egcs-2.91.66.

The Sablot configure script checks for expat, of which I have the
latest version, expat-1.95.8, correctly installed. However, the
configure script uses g++ (rather than gcc) to compile the test
program, which results in errors of the form:

/usr/local/include/expat.h:142: parse error before `__attribute__'
/usr/local/include/expat.h:148: type specifier omitted for parameter
/usr/local/include/expat.h:148: parse error before `)'

(many of them, always same form)

These problems disapper if I invoke the compiler as gcc, on the same
test program... I have tried to wrap the #include <expath.h> into an
extern "C" {} block without results.

I have tried to simply comment out the test but Sablot is a C++
library and actually uses g++ in its comilation...

I am reluctant to make any major upgrades (like C compielr and
libraries) at the moment, partly because I am 2500 km from that
machine and partly because I am not very familiar with the process,
and I suspect that it is a lot of work to bring a while system from
egcs-2.91.66 to current gcc/g++.

Any help is appreciated!

Stefano

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Ghirlanda | Interdisciplinary cultural research, Stockholm University
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Stefano Ghirlanda <stefano.ghirlanda@unibo.it> wrote:
> I am reluctant to make any major upgrades (like C compielr and
> libraries) at the moment, partly because I am 2500 km from that
> machine and partly because I am not very familiar with the process,
> and I suspect that it is a lot of work to bring a while system from
> egcs-2.91.66 to current gcc/g++.

How about compiling locally, and make a Slackware "tgz" package out of
it. Then, install to remote machine.

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