From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Intel Mac-mini OSX 10.5.1 guile test results Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:54:17 +0000 Message-ID: <87k5lrughi.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <6D512751-B4BD-4E2B-A903-9732A68E7DF4@iinet.net.au> <87hchl33cv.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <873asoktvn.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <4C6B44CC-8612-43D9-BBEB-53FCDB4D1D95@iinet.net.au> <878x2e51dd.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <7A8A3E01-C259-46BB-8FA7-92F75AAB7642@iinet.net.au> <87y7ae3kqj.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <93FFB602-A52D-41A6-B987-D330A188C2AD@iinet.net.au> <6844ECAC-72E7-46CB-8032-D941B94876B1@iinet.net.au> <87prvkp6ts.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201730075 17207 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2008 21:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Roger Mc Murtrie Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 30 22:54:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKKtQ-0006uP-F2 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:54:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKKsz-0001o1-63 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKKsv-0001mQ-6p for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:54:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKKst-0001mE-Mu for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:54:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKKst-0001mB-ID for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:54:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKKst-0006Qu-18 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:54:19 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-145-183-175.range86-145.btcentralplus.com [86.145.183.175]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C88E1F69CB; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:54:18 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [192.168.0.10]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF5B3800A; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:54:17 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Roger Mc Murtrie's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:35:52 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:3744 Archived-At: Roger Mc Murtrie writes: > I agree "the patch didn't change that line". > I don't think the problem was caused by your patch or any corruption > of it as I actually implemented the patch "by hand". > It seemed to me that m4_esyscmd wasn't working properly as it inserted > a CR at the wrong place in the "# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61 for > guile 1.8.3." line of the configure file (after the 3 as I remember so > that the period following the 3 appeared on a line by itself causing > ./ configure to abort at that line). > I tried to get some info on m4_esyscmd from the on-line autoconf > manual but, although it appears in the manual's index, B.5 M4 Macro > Index, which provides alink to the Redefined M4 Macros section, it is > not mentioned in that section or anywhere else in the document as far > as I can see. > > Any other ideas? Was this the first time that you ran autoconf in the Guile 1.8.3 distribution - or that something in the ./configure magic decided to run it? Guile distributions (like most free software tarballs) are set up so that you normally don't have to run autoconf yourself, so I think the above is quite likely. In that case, I think we can just forget this problem. The autotools are very sensitive to exact versions of autoconf, m4, libtool, automake etc., and I daresay to host OS also, so if we go down this road we'll end up debugging all of those tools on MacOS, as well as Guile! When the next release candidate comes out, you won't have to run the autoconf step on your OS. Regards, Neil