Re: ccc

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Joakim Roubert wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Today I gave the install of ccc another shot; I've failed so far.
> (I suck.)
>
> The latest rpm I found at Compaq was the ccc-6.5.6.002-1.alpha.rpm.
> Running apt-get ccc for stable and unstable gives med the
> ccc_6.5.9.001-1_alpha.deb, which prompts for ccc-6.5.9.001-1.alpha.rpm
>
> I tried to rename the RPM in order to cheat the system, thinking it
> wouldn't work. It didn't.
>
> Before I try to make a manual workaround, is there a place to get a
> ccc-6.5.9.001-1.alpha.rpm?
The package description gives: http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/

Hmm, clicking on "Compaq C" leads one down a trail which talks about 
version 6.2...

OTOH, clicking on the "Enthusiast & Education Program" (on the left-side 
bar) gives me a registration page, and then a downloads page with a link 
to "ccc-6.5.9.001-6.alpha.rpm.crypt".

> Last time I tried to pump ccc in my system I made .deb-packages with alien
> -c as said might work on this list, but when installed, ccc complained
> about not finding correct libraries and stuff.
>
> Does anybody have some tricks or advice here?
Hmm.  This is the stuff that the .deb does, but there are a lot of 
symlinks, script runs, etc. involved.  I guess the best advice I can 
give is just to follow the procedure in the postinst: use rpm2cpio to 
unpack, copy in as postinst does, and run the scripts that postinst 
does.  I think it should work...

Oh wait, just go to http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/compaq/ and the 
6.5.6.002-1.deb binary is there.  (That should be in the 
README.Debian... but there is none!  Sorry about that.  I should stick a 
note in the templates file.)

So if you can't get 6.5.9, that should solve your problem with 6.5.6.

One warning though: since gcc became gcc-3.2, I haven't been able to 
build a working cxx.  It must be trying to call gcc, which is 3.2, but 
cxx's name mangling is incompatible with 3.2 so there are always missing 
symbols (like cout).  I've tried to do several things, like forcing it 
to use gcc-2.95, but it still calls "gcc" which is 3.2, and doesn't want 
to be convinced to do otherwise.  So cxx on unstable right now is dead, 
for all practical purposes, until someone at Compaq -er- HP decides to 
make it work on 3.2 -- or make the gcc call configurable.  (I suppose 
you could work-around using a diversion to make gcc be 2.95 again, but 
that would be ugly.)  I can't see how this might give you any trouble 
with ccc, but it might...

Ah, the joys of closed-source software!

Zeen,
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