Re: gperf (C2Ada) build problem...

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Ronald Abdur-Raheem Ali <RonAli@WriteMe.com> writes:

> If someone can assist with this unique problem ...
> 
> I'm building the C2Ada translator from Inmet.com,
> which requires that python and gperf be built first.
> I'm running on a Sun - Sparc Enterprise 2, with SunOS 5.0, and
> gnat  versions 3.05 and 3.10, which both reference gcc version 2.7.2.

I tried this on Windows NT; I got gperf and python to build, but not
the rest of C2Ada. It uses a non-Posix, non-gnu regexp package, which
may be available on Solaris.

There is a binary distribution of C2Ada for AIX on the OCSystems FTP
site ftp://ocsystems.com/pub/ (I haven't tried it yet; my AIX system
is currently down). While you are there, check out OCS man at
http://ocsystems.com/ -- best Ada graphic I've seen yet!

I got gperf to build with the Cygnus gcc distribution, although I had
to delete the -p (profiling) (and I boosted -O to -O3). From your
error messages, it appears that the Sun/Solaris stdio.h is not ANSI C
compliant; see if you can use the glib version instead (this seems to
be what GNAT 3.10 did). Or you can hack getopt.c to match the Solaris
headers; shouldn't be too hard.

I've no clue why GNAT is looking for mcrt1.o; try the gnat chat
mailing list (see instructions at http://www.gnat.com/).

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> RonAli@WriteMe.com

-- Stephe