compilers might work as well. egcs1.0 will not work, however.
gcc2.95 works.
- Perl: any Perl 5.x version should work.
- - Make: we use GNU make, version 3.75. Other make programs are not standardized
- and will quite surely fail to work.
+ - Make: we use GNU make, version 3.75. We also use GNU make 3.78
+ which has much better support for parallel builds, so you may
+ want to consider this version if you have a multiprocessor
+ system. GNU make 3.77 had a serious flaw in the $(wildcard ...)
+ function which prevented us from compiling some parts of the
+ library (most of our Makefiles are fixed, though). Other make
+ programs are not standardized and will quite surely fail to work.
- In case you want to generate the documentation from the header
files, you only need Perl installed.
- In case you want the printable documentation, however, you need