Re: Algol68 compiler (algol68toc) on Linux?

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> writes:
> I've downloaded the Algol68 compiler package 'algol68toc_1.15.tar.gz'[*] and
> compiled[**] and installed it on a Xubuntu Linux 2.6.32. When I ran it I got:
>
> Run time fault (aborting):
> Garbage collector:HEAP allocation of object whose size is not a word multiple
> Abort
>
> Has anyone compiled and used this package and can give me some hints how to
> make that beast run?
>
> Janis
>
> [*] Source: http://www.nunan.myzen.co.uk/algol68/algol68toc_1.15.tar.gz
> [**] I've seen no configure file, so I compiled it as it came with 'make'.


It's probably a different package, but I've successfully used


        apt-get install algol68g


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