BTW gnuCOBOL on OpenSuse was even easier to install than I mentioned before “sudo zypper install gnu-cobol”. Anyhoo this is what was running on OpenSuse for comparison to my manual Mint install.
bill@bill-MS-7B79:~/Mystuff/COBOL> cobc --info
cobc (GnuCOBOL) 3.1.2.0
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Keisuke Nishida, Roger While, Ron Norman, Simon Sobisch, Edward Hart
Built Dec 23 2020 00:00:00
Packaged Dec 23 2020 12:04:58 UTC
C version "11.2.1 20210816 [revision 056e324ce46a7924b5cf10f61010cf9dd2ca10e9]"
build information
build environment : x86_64-suse-linux-gnu
CC : gcc
C version : "11.2.1 20210816 [revision
056e324ce46a7924b5cf10f61010cf9dd2ca10e9]"
CPPFLAGS : -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
CFLAGS : -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables
-fstack-clash-protection -Werror=return-type
-g -fstack-protector-strong -pipe
-finline-functions -fsigned-char -Wall
-Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wno-format-y2k
LD : /usr/x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64
LDFLAGS : -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now,-O1
GnuCOBOL information
COB_CC : gcc
COB_CFLAGS : -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-fstack-protector-strong
-fstack-clash-protection -Werror=return-type
-fstack-protector-strong -pipe
-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-I/usr/include -Wno-unused -fsigned-char
-Wno-pointer-sign -O
COB_DEBUG_FLAGS : -ggdb3 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
COB_LDFLAGS : -fstack-protector-strong
COB_LIBS : -L/usr/lib64 -lcob -lm
COB_CONFIG_DIR : /usr/share/gnucobol/config
COB_COPY_DIR : /usr/share/gnucobol/copy
COB_MSG_FORMAT : GCC
COB_OBJECT_EXT : o
COB_MODULE_EXT : so
COB_EXE_EXT :
64bit-mode : yes
BINARY-C-LONG : 8 bytes
endianness : little-endian
native EBCDIC : no
extended screen I/O : ncursesw
variable file format : 0
sequential file handler : built-in
indexed file handler : BDB
mathematical library : GMP
XML library : libxml2
JSON library : json-c
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