Re: Problems building GNU Prolog 1.2.19 on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (r1)

[Roberto Bagnara]

Salvador Abreu wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2006, at 15:55 , Roberto Bagnara wrote:
>
> > However, even with GCC 3.3.5 things do not work: the
> > details are below the signature.
> > Any idea what can the problem be?
>
> You may want to try the unofficial (it's not one of the regular target 
> architectures) unstable alpha build of gprolog, on Debian.
>
> I don't have easy access to an Alpha anymore so I can't really check, 
> but the build daemons seem to have picked up the 1.2.18-16 version, 
> which is in fact very close to the upstream 1.2.19 and managed to 
> compile it without errors on a Debian Alpha, so I guess you should be 
> able to, also.
>
> You'll find it (among others) in the directory:
>     ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gprolog/
>
> The "interesting" files should be:
> -rw-rwxr--   1 root      895657 Jun 16  2003 gprolog_1.2.18.orig.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root       80301 Nov  1 08:32 gprolog_1.2.18-16.diff.gz
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root         808 Nov  1 08:32 gprolog_1.2.18-16.dsc
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root     1849716 Nov  1 18:17 gprolog_1.2.18-16_alpha.deb
>
> Good luck and let me know if it works, in which case I'll put the Alpha 
> back in the target architectures for gprolog on Debian,

Thanks, Salvador.  It does not work though.  At least not for me:
the gprolog.h header file in that distribution does not contain valid C++ code.
All the best,

   Roberto

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