bug#14421: Unable to build Guile 2.0.9

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Hi Douglas,

On Sat 18 May 2013 23:05, Douglas Mencken <dougmencken@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to build Guile release 2.0.9, but it prints errors instead of
> successful build:
> http://manulix.wikidot.com/issues#toc3
>
>   SNARF  regex-posix.doc
>   GEN      guile-procedures.texi
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 12 [apply-smob/1 #<boot-closure 108966c0 (_ _ _)> #t ...]
>    ?: 11 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 10942570>]
>    ?: 10 [primitive-eval ((@ # %) (begin # # #))]
>    ?: 9 [primitive-load "/root/build-farm/guile-v2.0.9.builddir/meta/guild"]
>    ?: 8 [primitive-eval (define-module (guild) #:use-module ...)]
>    ?: 7 [apply-smob/1 #<boot-closure 10998ce0 (_)> (define-module # # # ...)]
>    ?: 6 [apply-smob/1 #<boot-closure 10acea10 ()>]
>    ?: 5 [apply-smob/1 #<boot-closure 10ace9f0 ()>]
>    ?: 4 [apply-smob/1 #<boot-closure 10ad1c70 ()>]
>    ?: 3 [primitive-eval #<struct:1080ac78 pwpwpwpwpw 10949b20>]
>    ?: 2 [primitive-load-path "ice-9/getopt-long" #<boot-closure 1081e430 ()>]
>    ?: 1 [primitive-eval (define short-opt-rx (make-regexp "^-([a-zA-Z]+)(.*)"))]
>    ?: 0 [make-regexp "^-([a-zA-Z]+)(.*)"]
>
> ERROR: make[3]: *** [guile-procedures.texi] Error 1

What platform is this on?  Have you successfully compiled Guile in the
past?

What is your locale?  If you try with LC_ALL=C does it work?

I wonder if this is related somehow with the gnulib regexp update we did
recently.

Andy

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