You can ignore the "pre-beta" comments providing it compiles and both
tests pass without errors but see my comments below.
Go to files -> gnu-cobol -> 2.0 and grab the latest nightly file
The other option is to use a snapshot from the current sources via
https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/branches/gnu-cobol-2.0/
I suggest trying the former first as the later can have bugs in the
check and test systems.
By all this I mean that you install the sources, read the notes and
ensure you have installed all of the required packages via your distro
if possible. Note that these may not be the latest but should work.
Also download the sources for the NIST testing - again this is detailed
in the notes within tests/cobol85.
You need to:
compile it by using
./configure
make
make check and this should show all completed tests ran OK (ignoring
any that have been skipped).
cd tests/cobol85
make test - again this should not show any errors when it compares
the results with the stored previously recorded results.
.
Then you are good to go.
Takes around 10 minutes start to finish on a mid range system.
Personally I use the report writer branch that tends not to have all the
bleeding edge code added but some users like to have them.
Try the nightly build first as that also seems to be stable.
Vince
On 29/09/15 12:55, John McKown wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Vince Coen <[email protected]> wrote:
OK, the one I am using seems to be somewhat more up to date:
-------------
[vince@study ~]$ cobc -info
cobc (GNU Cobol) 2.0.0
​Did you get that as a package? Or did you download and compile the source
yourself? The project that I found was on SourceForge and it said 2.0 was
pre-beta.​
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