bcc can't find bcc-cpp on x86_64

tauon · 10-05-2022, 04:14 AM

Apologies for some retro stuff here.

When I run Bruce C compiler on my beloved Slackware64 15.0 I get the following error:

Code:

Unable to execute bcc-cpp.

The reason is, bcc expects to find it's preprocessor in /usr/lib/bcc/, but the SlackBuild script installs it into /usr/lib64/bcc/, so it might be that the simplest solution would be just to install all of the stuff to /usr/lib/bcc/. Alternatively, one can patch the Makefile to distinguish x86 and x86_64.

P.S. Don't ask me why I run bcc...

giomat · 10-05-2022, 08:02 AM

does it work if you make a symlink /usr/lib/bcc/ -> /usr/lib64/bcc/ ? it should be enough

tauon · 10-05-2022, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by giomat

does it work if you make a symlink /usr/lib/bcc/ -> /usr/lib64/bcc/ ? it should be enough

Yes, it works:

Code:

% which bcc
/usr/bin/bcc
% bcc -ansi hello.c
% hexdump a.out | head -2
0000000 0301 0420 0020 0000 0ba0 0000 0078 0000
0000010 0278 0000 0000 0000 82f0 0000 0940 0000
%

It is much simpler than mine "let's recompile the whole bcc locally and set PATH each time I need it"