On 08/02/2008, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> For reasons that escape me I volunteered to build starlink on a visiting
> observer's laptop. The reason I needed to build it is that he was running
> an ancient system comprising of Mandrake 9.0 install from 2002.
>
> This comes with gcc 2.95 and some ancient g77. Luckily someone on the
> internet had the Mandrake 9.0 rpms around so I could install
> flex/bison/byacc and readline-devel et al.
>
> Amazingly enough it all built fine including starjava once I did an ant
> build-native for splat/jnihds/jniast. cmake didn't build automatically but
> a manual bootstrap solved that.
>
> The only thing that broke was ncar. There were internal compiler errors on
> about 10 routines. Since no-one really cares I replaced them with stub
> routines.
That's rather odd isn't it - considering that ncar is pretty ancient
itself? I wouldn't have expected ncar to push any compiler limits.
David
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