Re: Unable to build guile

[Dwight <dcrs6000@aceweb.com>]

Hi Ludovic Courtès,

> Note that `-Wall' itself is harmless, it's `-Werror' that causes the
> compilation to stop.  You can just as well use:
> 
>   ... ./configure --disable--error-on-warning
> 
> which removes `-Werror'.
   OK!  Thanks for the tip!

> The `guile-snarf-docs' scripts uses Guile, so it's an indication that
> the newly built Guile doesn't work.  :-)
> 
> Can you try running "./pre-inst-guile" from the Guile build directory?


# ./pre-inst-guile 2>&1 | tee /tmp/ToMail
ksh: 28668 Segmentation fault(coredump)


LABEL:          CORE_DUMP
Date/Time:       Tue Nov  4 11:09:47 PST
Type:            PERM
Resource Name:   SYSPROC
Description
SOFTWARE PROGRAM ABNORMALLY TERMINATED
Detail Data
SIGNAL NUMBER
           11
USER'S PROCESS ID:
        28668
FILE SYSTEM SERIAL NUMBER
            5
INODE NUMBER
        24576
PROCESSOR ID
            1
CORE FILE NAME
/tmp/VIM/guile-1.8.5/core
PROGRAM NAME
lt-guile
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
pthread_m 4C
pthread_m 44
scm_threa 28
scm_i_ini 4C
scm_i_wit 100
scm_boot_ 34
main 3C
__start 8C




> Also, can you provide a backtrace for the segfault?  Assuming GDB is
> available on your platform, something like the following should work:
> 
>   $ cd /the/guile/build/dir
>   $ gdb libguile/.libs/lt-guile core
>   (gdb) bt full

# ./pre-inst-guile
Segmentation fault(coredump)
# gdb libguile/.libs/lt-guile core
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This GDB was configured as "powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0"...
ptrace ldinfo: The process does not exist..
(gdb) bt full
#0  0xd004a864 in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o)
No symbol table info available.
#1  0xd6dd0bac in scm_threads_prehistory (base=0x2ff21e48) at threads.c:1656
No locals.
#2  0xd6e38b40 in scm_i_init_guile (base=0x0) at init.c:421
No locals.
#3  0xd6dd2fa4 in scm_i_with_guile_and_parent (func=@0xf0bd8764: 0x100a6834, data=0x2ff21ea8, parent=0xd6e37cfc)
     at threads.c:561
         res = (void *) 0xf0bd8764
         base_item = 3846
#4  0xd6e38908 in scm_boot_guile (argc=536910536, argv=0x1, main_func=@0x20009af0: 0, closure=0x8180)
     at init.c:350
         c = {main_func = @0x200018b0: 0x10000458 <inner_main>, closure = 0x0, argc = 1, argv = 0x2ff21f5c}
#5  0x10000414 in main (argc=1, argv=0x2ff21f5c) at guile.c:74
No locals.
(gdb) Quit


> It would also be interesting to see the warnings issued by GCC -Wall.

numbers.c: In function 'guile_ieee_init':
numbers.c:622: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
numbers.c:645: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
make[3]: *** [libguile_la-numbers.lo] Error 1


cc1: warnings being treated as errors
net_db.c: In function 'scm_resolv_error':
net_db.c:112: warning: implicit declaration of function 'hstrerror'
make[3]: *** [net_db.lo] Error 1





   Hope this information help.

Bye,
Dwight