[Corpora-List] EVALB installation problems

[Ramon Ziai]

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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