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"PMG" wrote:

> Paul Black wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to instal gnuchess 5.0 on an SGI irix 6.4 machine.
>> I am compiling with   gcc 2.95.2. using gmake.
>> Below is a partial list of error message I got when I typed gmake.
>> 
>> cc ERROR parsing -Winline:  bad syntax for option
>> cc WARNING:  phase key (n)  is no longer supported
>> ...
>> cc ERROR parsing -Winline:  bad syntax for option
>> cc WARNING:  phase key (e)  is no longer supported
>> 
>> ...
>> cc ERROR parsing -Winline:  unknown flag
>> cc ERROR parsing -Wmissing-prototypes:  bad syntax for option
>> 
>> ...
>> ERROR parsing -funroll-loops:  unknown flag
>> ERROR parsing -fomit-frame-pointer: unknown flag
>> gmake: *** [atak.o]  Error 2
>> 
>> I am a little new at installing gnu software.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Paul Black
> 
>  Only guessing here because I don't use a Unix type OS myself, but make
> sure that you have the most up to date gcc, and that you're using the
> right makefile, and you may have to comment and un comment different
> flags, that's what my uneducated look at those errors looks like to
> me.,    They're not pointing their finger at lines of code, so you have
> to be thinking about the compiler and the makefile.

Looks to me as if entirely the wrong C compiler is getting invoked.
If the Makefile contains a line like

    CC = cc

then changing that to

    CC = gcc

will probably fix things.

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