git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

[Steven Wu]

Hi,

I was building guile 1.9 from git clone src, and I run into the  
following problems:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-maintainer-mode -- 
enable-threads
...
=== configuring in guile-readline (/Users/wus/local/src/gnu/guile/ 
guile-readline)
configure: running /bin/sh ./configure '--prefix=/usr'  '--enable- 
shared' '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--enable-threads' --cache-file=/ 
dev/null --srcdir=.
./configure: line 4: .: filename argument required
.: usage: . filename [arguments]
configure: error: ./configure failed for guile-readline

The problem was like that in the guile-readline/configure.in
$ head guile-readline/configure.in
AC_PREREQ(2.50)

AC_INIT(guile-readline,
         m4_esyscmd(. ../GUILE-VERSION && echo -n ${GUILE_VERSION}))
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(readline.c)
AM_CONFIG_HEADER([guile-readline-config.h])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign no-define])

. $srcdir/../GUILE-VERSION

but the generated configure becane:
$ head guile-readline/configure
#! /bin/sh
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61 for guile-readline -n 1.9.0
.
#
# Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
# 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation
# gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
## --------------------- ##
If added ". $srcdir/../GUILE-VERSION," $srcdir couldn't be resolve  
correctly. I changed it to ". ../GUILE-VERSION" and got me pass that,  
but it stopped at:
=== configuring in guile-readline (/Users/wus/local/src/gnu/guile/ 
guile-readline)
configure: running /bin/sh ./configure '--prefix=/usr'  '--enable- 
shared' '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--enable-threads' --cache-file=/ 
dev/null --srcdir=.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
configure: error: ./configure failed for guile-readline

Any recommendation?

steve

Re: git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Steven Wu <wus@qwest.net> writes:

> === configuring in guile-readline (/Users/wus/local/src/gnu/guile/
> guile-readline)
> configure: running /bin/sh ./configure '--prefix=/usr'  '--enable- 
> shared' '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--enable-threads' --cache-file=/
> dev/null --srcdir=.
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for nawk... no
> checking for awk... awk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name...
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.

Can you please show the relevant part of `config.log'?

Thanks,
Ludovic.

Re: git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

[Steven Wu]

config.log:

lispdir='${datarootdir}/emacs/site-lisp'
localedir='${datarootdir}/locale'
localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
lt_ECHO='/bin/echo'
mandir='${datarootdir}/man'
mkdir_p='$(top_builddir)/build-aux/install-sh -c -d'
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
pdfdir='${docdir}'
prefix='/usr'
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
psdir='${docdir}'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
subdirs=' guile-readline'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target_alias=''
top_builddir_absolute='/Users/wus/local/src/gnu/guile'
top_srcdir_absolute='/Users/wus/local/src/gnu/guile'

configure: exit 1

guile-readline/config.log
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
psdir='${docdir}'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target_alias=''

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

#define PACKAGE_NAME "guile-readline"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "guile-readline"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "-n 1.9.0
"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "guile-readline -n 1.9.0
"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""

configure: exit 77

steve

Re: git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Steven,

By "relevant part of `config.log'", I meant the few lines around
"checking for C compiler default output file name..." in
`guile-readline/config.log'.  It should show the test file that
`configure' tried to compile, the command line it used, and the
compilation error it got.

Thanks,
Ludovic.

Re: git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

[Steven Wu]

silly me, here we go:
configure:2881: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
conftest.c:5: error: missing terminating " character
conftest.c:7: error: missing terminating " character
configure:2884: $? = 1
configure:2922: result:
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "guile-readline"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "guile-readline"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "-n 1.9.0
| "
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "guile-readline -n 1.9.0
| "
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:2929: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

The problem is the newline before closing quote.

steve

Re: git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

[Steven Wu]

looks like the problems are in the configure file, where I found the  
following:
PACKAGE_VERSION='-n 1.9.0
'
PACKAGE_STRING='guile-readline -n 1.9.0
'
If I  changed them by hand, the problem went away.

steve

Re: git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Steven Wu <wus@qwest.net> writes:

> silly me, here we go:
> configure:2881: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
> conftest.c:5: error: missing terminating " character
> conftest.c:7: error: missing terminating " character
> configure:2884: $? = 1
> configure:2922: result:
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "guile-readline"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "guile-readline"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "-n 1.9.0
> | "

Can you try to debug how this happens?

The top of my `guile-readline/configure' contains this:

  # Identity of this package.
  PACKAGE_NAME='guile-readline'
  PACKAGE_TARNAME='guile-readline'
  PACKAGE_VERSION='1.9.0'
  PACKAGE_STRING='guile-readline 1.9.0'
  PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''

I'm using Autoconf 2.61.  What about you?

Thanks,
Ludovic.

Re: git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

[Steven Wu]

track down where the problem occurred:
  configure.in 3: m4_esyscmd(. ../GUILE-VERSION && echo -n $ 
{GUILE_VERSION}))

It looks like MacOS X /bin/sh did not know -n flag, and it generated
'-n 1.9.0
'
steve

Re: git clone guile 1.9 build problem on MacOS X 10.5.2

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Steven Wu <wus@qwest.net> writes:

> track down where the problem occurred:
>  configure.in 3: m4_esyscmd(. ../GUILE-VERSION && echo -n $
> {GUILE_VERSION}))
>
> It looks like MacOS X /bin/sh did not know -n flag, and it generated
> '-n 1.9.0
> '

Thanks for finding it out!  I just committed a fix (which was already
present in the top-level `configure.in').

Ludovic.