A different kind of Wednesday
Sep. 1st, 2010 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoGloomy and humid, not much rain yet, though there have been a couple of thunder rumbles this evening.
Survived this morning's meeting, had lunch in Woodstock with Gary, went to his regular Wednesday group practice session. Attendance was down due to people out of town for various reasons, which sort of left me to play the role of lead instrumental soloist more than I'd expected. Fortunately, it worked much of the time.
In between that, confirmed that the emulated VAX setup I was reviving is now functional, with all three target compilers (C, Pascal, FORTRAN) installed and working. While I was at it, pulled down and installed the GNU Pascal compiler on the Linux host system as well for comparison. Last time I was messing with Pascal, that was very incomplete. Now it looks like a fairly complete and functional environment. Simple test programs I wrote on the VAX ran perfectly under the Linux gpc as well.
I can't say the same for the older p2c package. That's a translator that is supposed to convert Pascal source code to standard C, and it used to work, but this latest version is defective as far as I can tell. It tries to call a module called p2crc from a nonexistent directory /build/buildd... that must be a development setup of some sort because it certainly isn't standard Linux.
Oh, and black walnuts for dyeing are now secured. All I have to do is go pick them up. It turns out that Gilbert was actually tossing them into a bucket. Last night we had a little rain, so now they are soaking in the rainwater as well, which is fine as I can just include that water when brewing the dye pot.
Survived this morning's meeting, had lunch in Woodstock with Gary, went to his regular Wednesday group practice session. Attendance was down due to people out of town for various reasons, which sort of left me to play the role of lead instrumental soloist more than I'd expected. Fortunately, it worked much of the time.
In between that, confirmed that the emulated VAX setup I was reviving is now functional, with all three target compilers (C, Pascal, FORTRAN) installed and working. While I was at it, pulled down and installed the GNU Pascal compiler on the Linux host system as well for comparison. Last time I was messing with Pascal, that was very incomplete. Now it looks like a fairly complete and functional environment. Simple test programs I wrote on the VAX ran perfectly under the Linux gpc as well.
I can't say the same for the older p2c package. That's a translator that is supposed to convert Pascal source code to standard C, and it used to work, but this latest version is defective as far as I can tell. It tries to call a module called p2crc from a nonexistent directory /build/buildd... that must be a development setup of some sort because it certainly isn't standard Linux.
Oh, and black walnuts for dyeing are now secured. All I have to do is go pick them up. It turns out that Gilbert was actually tossing them into a bucket. Last night we had a little rain, so now they are soaking in the rainwater as well, which is fine as I can just include that water when brewing the dye pot.
