Re: [Corpora-List] EVALB installation problems

From: Ramon Ziai (ramon@linuxusers.de)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 21:32:24 MET DST

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    Hi all,

    > > I've been trying to install the EVALB program
    > > (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/evalb/) without success. The make file, which
    > > just runs GCC, produces a series of errors and warnings.
    > >
    > > The only advice I have seen regarding such problems has been to ensure
    > > the most up-to-date versions of GCC. I have done this, to no avail.

    this program uses a very old style of C syntax which is no longer
    tolerated by the most recent versions of gcc. So, upgrading to a newer
    version of gcc doesn't help here.

    > > Has anyone had similar problems, and if so how did they solve them?
    > > Alternatively, if no problems were encountered, which version of C was
    > > used to compile EVALB?

    I first used gcc 3.3.5 and it compiled with a few warnings. Then I tried
    with gcc 4.0 which didn't give success. I modified the C code a bit to
    fix that, a patch is attached. Copy the patch file into the EVALB
    directory and run 'patch -p1 < evalb.patch' to apply.

    Have fun,

    Ramon







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