2.0.1 on Mandrake linux

[Sven N. Thommesen]

I have successfully installed Swarm-2.0.1 from source on Mandrake-linux 6.0.

There is one PROBLEM: if you try to run ./configure as root, the process 
will hang hard. With Marcus's help we determined that one part of the 
config process will dump core, and this hangs .

The SOLUTION is to issue the command '# ulimit -c 0' before doing the 
configure. (This sets the max size of a core dump to zero.)

Mandrake ships with the pgcc compiler, which provides automatic 
optimization for Pentium class processors and above. It seems to work fine; 
a large Swarm sim compiled and ran with the same output as on Redhat 5.1.

(pgcc identifies itself as egcs-2.91.66, and it produces the same harmless 
error messages for which Marcus provided a patch to gcc-2.95. I haven't 
tried if his patch applies to pgcc.)

Happy computing,
Sven


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