Problem with Clean on RedHat 5.0

Pedro Palao Gostanza ecceso@eucmos.sim.ucm.es
Tue, 12 May 1998 07:18:18 +0000


Ana Maria Abrao wrote:

> I don't know anything about Linux versions of Clean,
> although two friends of mine installed
> them in their machines. However, in other versions of the language,
> the compiler doesn't find the path to _startup.o, when you run it
> for the first time. After the first run, the problem disappear.
> My suggestion is that you set the path to _startup.o, and try to
> run the program. If you fail, let me know. I will try to install
> Linux Clean in one of my machines and see whether I can repeat the
> problem. It seems that Clean team is quite busy because they
> aren't answering mails very often. I guess they are preparing
> the object io libray for Windows 95, and also the soon to be released
> version 2.0. I already have sent a question of mine three times
> to no avail. I am happy that they are working so hard on the library
> that can't even answer the mail. You know, I do want that library!
> Sorry, but I don't think they intend to port it to Linux :)

I have the same problem. It seems to be related to the new gnu c lib
(libc6).
Some functions needed by the clean runtime are deprecated. I have
installed
the old libraries (libc5), but i don't know how to tell the compiler to
link with
them.

Regards,
  Pedro Palao.