[RPL/2] Downloading actual version

[Felix Becker]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2007, 09:28 +0100 schrieb BERTRAND Joël:
> Felix Becker wrote:
> > I am new to this list, and on the web I found traces that there
should
> > be pre8m- and even pre8w-versions of RPL/2 4.0.0 around somewhere. I
> > only found, on
> > http://www.systella.fr/~bertrand/rpl2/download/download.html, pre8
(with
> > the comment "don't use") and prerelease.1, prerelease.2.
> 
>       RPL/2 was released 3 years ago. It contains a lot of bugs that
have 
> been fixed now. I think you can not build this release with a recent
gcc 
> compiler (due interaction between gcc-4.x g77 from gcc-3.x).
> Some improvements are added to RPL/2 since pre8 too.
> [...]
>       You can use prerelease.2 (and you should use). I consider this 
> prerelease stable

When it was released?


> > (Now compiling --
> > with errors :( -- the prerelease.2.).
> 
>       What kind of errors ?

$ LANG=C make all
[...]
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/felics/download/RPL2/rpl-4.0.0.prerelease.2/src'
iconv -f iso-8859-1\
                        -t ANSI_X3.4-1968 algebre_lineaire1.c | expand
-t 4 > algebre_lineaire1.conv.c
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 116
iconv -f iso-8859-1\
                        -t ANSI_X3.4-1968 algebre_lineaire2.c | expand
-t 4 > algebre_lineaire2.conv.c
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 116
iconv -f iso-8859-1\
                        -t ANSI_X3.4-1968 algebre_lineaire3.c | expand
-t 4 > algebre_lineaire3.conv.c
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 116
iconv -f iso-8859-1\
                        -t ANSI_X3.4-1968 analyse.c | expand -t 4 >
analyse.conv.c
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 116
iconv -f iso-8859-1\
                        -t ANSI_X3.4-1968 analyse_notation_algebrique.c
| expand -t 4 > analyse_notation_algebrique.conv.c
[A lot more like this]

iconv: illegal input sequence at position 116
iconv -f iso-8859-1\
                        -t ANSI_X3.4-1968 rpl.h | expand -t 4 >
rpl.conv.h
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 116
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `rpl.xpm', needed by `all'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/felics/download/RPL2/rpl-4.0.0.prerelease.2/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/felics/download/RPL2/rpl-4.0.0.prerelease.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[Exiting]


> Which system ? Which compiler ?

Debian etch/lenny/sid with a bit of sarge

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

$ g77 --version
GNU Fortran (GCC) 3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5)


I probably should try with gcc 3 as you pointed out (and I am not
familiar with gcc, C, Fortran or g77 at all. I know Python, Pascal, RPL,
bash, and probably lisp soon.)

--> Now tried (cd /usr/bin; ln -s gcc-3.4 gcc): The same error.

Any idea?

Felix.