Re: Problems making Swarm 2.1.1 under Linux-Mandrake8.0

[Paul E Johnson]

Steven Kembel wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> Apologies if this problem has been solved before. I've done a search of the
> mailing list archives and didn't find any solutions.
> 
> I'm trying to compile, make and install Swarm 2.1.1 from the
> swarm-2.1.1.tar.gz file on a system running Linux Mandrake 8.0. I have
> checked and all the needed software is installed on my system, although in
> some cases the versions on my system are slightly newer than those required
> by Swarm. I'm running gcc and gcc-objc 2.96, with the Sun JDK 1.3.1 installed.
> 
> There are no problems when I run ./configure, but when it comes time to make,
> I get frequent "objc/objc-list.h:147:8: warning: extra tokens at end of
> #endif directive" warning messages in a file included from obj/runtime.h:43,
> and from sendmsg.c, and the make eventually exits due to the following error:
Some ideas.
1. there is no gcc-2.96, really, there is only a beta snapshot of gcc
that RedHat made. We had plenty of trouble with it, especially in the C
preprocessor.  That "extra token" business reminds me of bad cpp action
in gcc that caused me a lot of that same heartache.  I ended up
rebuilding gcc-2.95.3 from scratch, and there are rpms for it in my
site, and you could consider that.  We had some give-and-take with
RedHat, we found one mistake in their setup, they found a mistake in our
setup, and they issued newer snapshots of 2.96.  After they patched it
up, we could get Swarm to compile, but I don't think Swarm-2.1.1 will,
but you should go ahead and take the newest snapshot of Swarm, and I
guess it will.
Look in here:
ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/src/testing/

These have received pretty heavy testing from Marcus Daniels, Me, and
several others. THe newest one I see today is this, 
swarm-2001-10-10.tar.gz 
but on my system, i'm still using the next-to-last edition.

Another explanation for the bad token is corruption in your source code,
possibly a stray character in the end of the line.

2. If you can't get that to compile, write back to the list, and tell us
more exactly what the configure command was that you used.  Usually
./configure alone does not get the job done.  So tell us more of what
you did.

3. I wonder if you can't use the Swarm rpms for redhat systems. If you
install my rpms for gcc-3.0.1 and hdf, I wonder why swarm rpms would not
install? http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.x_RPMSforRH7/  

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