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: guile-1.8.3 Intel Mac Leopard compilation fails due to no off64_t Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:08:17 +0000 Message-ID: <87lk66ud26.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87prw9354g.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <881AD488-9F97-4F0D-B078-BEBD5BB684B8@iinet.net.au> <87tzll1eel.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <35E22493-6C5F-4DEE-A261-9D0ED2998C2A@iinet.net.au> <871w89fr5w.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 1201734554 714 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2008 23:09:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:09:14 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 31 00:09:35 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 1JKM3R-0002nW-P6 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:09:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKM30-0002RJ-4t for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:08:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKM2c-0002Iw-4M for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKM2X-0002Gt-Cs for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:08:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKM2X-0002Go-8O for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:08:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKM2W-0003xq-Tl for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:08:21 -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 4A0361F69DA; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:08:19 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [192.168.0.10]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0070D3800A; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:08:17 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <871w89fr5w.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:10:03 +0000") 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:3747 Archived-At: Neil Jerram writes: > In that light, and also because a Guile without LARGEFILE64 support is > surely better than no Guile at all, I think we should address this > problem for the Mac OSes (and also HP-UX, per [1]), by adding a > --disable-64-calls option to ./configure, whose effect will be to > prevent Guile from trying to use xxx64() sys and library calls. OK, attached is the patch that I propose for this. Note that the option will actually be --without-64-calls, not --disable..., because --disable is supposed to be for optional features provided by the package being built. Any comments? Thanks, Neil