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#1 2011-12-07 18:07:53
- mghis
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Old GCC and GNU Make
Hi,
I have to get an old, huge software to compile (it was as released in 1998). It says they are syntax errors in the makefiles because it was meant to work with gcc 2.7.2 and GNU make 3.74.
May I install them alongside newer Gcc anc Gmake without messing anything up? Can you point me to the sources?
Thanks for any answer!
PS: and sorry if i posted in the wrong thread
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#2 2011-12-07 18:22:20
- JokerBoy
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#3 2011-12-07 18:32:56
- mghis
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Re: Old GCC and GNU Make
Thanks, it's interesting even if it's a newer version. (2.9)
But the most important problem is make. I need 3.74. I tried old debian packages (http://snapshot.debian.org/package/make/3.74-1/) but it seems that deb2targz can't extract it.
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#4 2011-12-07 18:50:36
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Re: Old GCC and GNU Make
by the way, AUR gcc2 doesn't compile.
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#5 2011-12-07 18:58:55
- JokerBoy
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Re: Old GCC and GNU Make
Yeah, I just tested it now. Maybe you should try to find some patches to compile that software with a newer gcc version.
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#6 2011-12-07 19:02:24
- mghis
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Re: Old GCC and GNU Make
I'm afraid there are no patches: I'm trying to compile Netscape Navigator 4.73. (I need it because it's written in Motif toolkit, the one that I'm programming with, and I'd like to take some of its widgets).
Motif Netscape has been discontinued a lot of years ago.
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