19990919: McIDAS make failure on RedHat Linux 5.2 (cont.)

>From: Erick Lorenz (address@hidden) <address@hidden>
>Organization: UC Davis
>Keywords: 199909172327.RAA00921 McIDAS-X Linux

Erick,

>Thanks for your answer.  I had done most of those things when I was
>building under 6.0 and thought I had it covered.

OK.  By the way, even though I have not yet updated my online Addenda
page, I made a bugfix addenda available on Sept. 14 that enables McIDAS-X
to be built on RedHat 6.0.

>I have one more bit of confusion however.  You wrote:
>
>>To use gcc/f2c, one must:
>>
>>     use a version of gcc greater than or equal to 2.7.3
>>     use a version of f2c released on or after August 1997
>>     use the static f2c library, libf2c.a, when linking
>
>I checked the GNU FTP site and found now such version as 2.7.3.  A partial
>list of their releases:
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>gcc-2.7.2.2.tar.gz          6966 Kb Mon Feb 10 00:00:00 1997 Unix Tape Archive
>gcc-2.7.2.3.tar.gz          6933 Kb Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 1997 Unix Tape Archive
>gcc-2.7.2.tar.gz            6923 Kb Wed Nov 29 00:00:00 1995 Unix Tape Archive
>gcc-2.8.0.tar.gz            8279 Kb Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 1998 Unix Tape Archive
>gcc-2.8.0.tar.gz            8279 Kb Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 1998 Unix Tape Archive
>gcc-2.8.1.tar.gz            8249 Kb Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 1998 Unix Tape Archive
>gcc-2.95.1.tar.gz          12571 Kb Mon Aug 16 13:53:00 1999 Unix Tape Archive
>gcc-2.95.tar.gz            12562 Kb Fri Jul 30 02:40:00 1999 Unix Tape Archive
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>shows a jump from 2.7.2.3 (which came with our Linux release) to 2.8.0.

The reason I used 2.7.3 as a benchmark was that I found that at least one
version previous to this had a bug that caused McIDAS builds to fail.
I assume that any release after 2.7.3 would be OK.

>My resident Linux gruru also maintains that 7.2.3.2 is the last of
>of the 7.x series.

Perhaps I am wrong.  Maybe it was 2.7.2.3.  I'll check to make sure.

>I am hoping that 2.7.2.3 is what the documentation really means but if not
>how far down the list can I safely go in selecting a new gcc to install?

I would always go for the latest release _unless_ the release notes for
the release had some show stoppers.  I have used 2.8.0 and 2.8.1 on
Solaris x86, so if you want to be sure, you should use that one.

>Thanks

Talk to you later...

Tom