Re: [Gm2] updated documentation with additional info on prerequisites

[john o goyo]

Greetings, Yves.

On 08/11/2018 20:25, Yves Cloutier wrote:
> ya I'm not sure. It seemed to me like it was building for all the gcc 
> supported languages....which may be why it was compiling for hours.
Yes -- to build gm2, you must build all of gcc, which is not a simple 
task on most platforms.

> Well, I'm gonna let modula go for now. It was mostly out of interest 
> and following some examples in books that I have.
Before you give up on Modula-2, you may want to consider either Mocka 
(https://github.com/GunterMueller/Mocka_Modula-2_Compilers_and_Murus/tree/master/GMD_MocKa_Compiler) 
or XDS (https://www.excelsior-usa.com/xds.html#downloads).

> thanks to everyone who tried to help!
You are most welcome and good luck.

john

> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:14 PM john o goyo <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Greetings, Yves.
>
>     On 08/11/2018 19:51, Yves Cloutier wrote (in part):
>     > ah man....so close.
>     >
>     > After deleting the build folder and doing the process again it wasÂ
>     > building stuff for hours....then crapped out with:
>     > (...)
>     > /home/drifter/dev/build-8.2.0/./prev-gcc/xg++
>     > [...]Â  -o gfortran
>     Why is it even trying to build gfortran?
>
>     There was one version of gcc when configure stuffed all the GNU
>     languages into the Makefile.  I manually removed all targets but
>     c, c++,
>     and gm2.  Then it worked.  I know not why this sometimes happens
>     but it
>     does.
>
>     john
>
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