Re: Guile 1.5.7 beta available for testing.

[Wolfgang Jährling]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> wrote:
> Please report problems to address@hidden or address@hidden

I'm about to do that. :)

>         - Remove automake and autoconf from your path, or turn off
>           their execute bits, or something.

Done that.  Seemed to not cause any problems.

>         - Configure, "make", "make check", and "make install".

I tried it on a i386-unknown-gnu0.3 system, but didn't get beyond the
"make".  Well, I got the following messages during configuring, which
are bugs elsewhere (and which I'm about to report elsewhere) and should
not cause further harm; but in case it actually is relevant for the
other problem I encountered, here they are: 

--- snip! ---
checking regex.h presence... ./configure: /dev/null: Interrupted system call
no
configure: WARNING: regex.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the 
preprocessor!
configure: WARNING: regex.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result

checking winsock2.h presence... ./configure: /dev/null: Interrupted system call
no

checking sys/file.h presence... ./configure: /dev/null: Interrupted system call
no
configure: WARNING: sys/file.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the 
preprocessor!
configure: WARNING: sys/file.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result

checking for S_ISLNK in sys/stat.h... ./configure: /dev/null: Interrupted 
system call
no

checking whether we need POSIX to get struct utimbuf... ./configure: /dev/null: 
Interrupted system call
yes
--- snap! ---

Later, the compilation aborted with 

--- snip! ---
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes 
-c stime.c -MT stime.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/stime.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
.libs/stime.lo
stime.c: In function `mytime':
stime.c:119: storage size of `time_buffer' isn't known
stime.c:120: warning: implicit declaration of function `times'
stime.c:119: warning: unused variable `time_buffer'
stime.c:122: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
stime.c: At top level:
stime.c:132: variable `scm_your_base' has initializer but incomplete type
stime.c:132: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
stime.c:132: warning: (near initialization for `scm_your_base')
stime.c: In function `scm_get_internal_real_time':
stime.c:144: storage size of `time_buffer' isn't known
stime.c:147: warning: implicit declaration of function `ftime'
stime.c:148: invalid use of undefined type `struct timeb'
stime.c:149: invalid use of undefined type `struct timeb'
stime.c:144: warning: unused variable `time_buffer'
stime.c: In function `scm_times':
stime.c:188: storage size of `t' isn't known
stime.c:188: warning: unused variable `t'
stime.c: In function `scm_init_stime':
stime.c:711: invalid use of undefined type `struct timeb'
stime.c: At top level:
stime.c:132: storage size of `scm_your_base' isn't known
make[2]: *** [stime.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toor/guile-1.5.7/libguile'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/toor/guile-1.5.7'
make: *** [all] Error 2
--- snap! ---

I would like to note that with a small patch in the GC (which I sent to
rlb back then), Guile 1.5.6 compiled and seemed to work (I only started
it and entered some simple expressions).

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang

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