Colin Jones wrote:

Hiya Barry Walsh.

In <news:2lg03kFbb11kU1@uni-berlin.de> you wrote:

 Has anyone got a valid archive of the executables of BOINC for Linux? The
one from the website doesn't download as a valid gzip file and I can't get
the source to successfully compile.

I vaguely remember reading it'll only compile with GCC 2.96, though I haven't gotten round to trying myself.

  Wouldn't install with 2.95, won't install with 3.xx (whatever "unstable"
package I upgraded to). I'm just looking for someone who has successfully
compiled it or managed to get a working version from the web site.

For the sake of curiousity I went and tried with GCC 3.3.3 and the BOINC  core client compiled fine. The actual SETI client wouldn't go beyond the first line or two.