From: psm@melbourneit.com.au (Phil Malin)
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Subject: Beta on Linux trouble
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 04:35:10 GMT
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Hi all.

I've recently downloaded the personal edition of Beta for Linux and am
having trouble getting it going.  I'm trying to compile the
HelloWorld.bet example and get the following compiler output:

----

[whitedove]/usr/home/psm/src/beta% beta HelloWorld.bet 
Mjolner BETA Compiler version 5.3(4) for Linux (Intel
386/486/586/Pentium) (elf)
Target machine type linux
Building dependency graph for: 'HelloWorld' ...
Translating fragments ...
Linking
Object program on file: HelloWorld
shell-init: could not get current directory: 
job-working-directory: could not get current directory: (T
@(T
@
job-working-directory: could not get current directory: (T
@(T
@
[whitedove]/usr/home/psm/src/beta% 

----

It does produce an executable but when I run it it core dumps.  If
I compile with the --static flag it produces the same output as above
but it works ok.  Has anyone else had this happen?

One thing that happened, though, is originally it couldn't find the
crtbegin.o or crtend.o files in /usr/lib.  I created soft links in
this directory to where they did exist,

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.7.2.3/crtxxxxx.o

I'm really not sure about the ramifications of doing this.  Has anyone
got any suggestions?  Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers.

Phil Malin, Senior Systems Engineer
Research and Technology Group, Melbourne IT
207 Bouverie St, Carlton, Victoria, Australia 3053
ph : +61-3-9344-9379       fax: +61-3-9347-9473