From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: master build issue Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:38:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87fxef4tvj.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87eiu07qse.fsf@arudy.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 1244164739 10629 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2009 01:18:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 01:18:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 03:18:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MCO59-00066d-Cs for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:18:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35786 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCO57-0003Wp-LM for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:18:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCN6n-0004Yk-3S for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCMRD-00085D-Ka for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:33:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48124 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCMRC-0007sV-Eq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:33:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:43148) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCJhm-0004xP-1m for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51A01F6D71; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:38:28 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF68C3801F; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:38:24 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu\, 04 Jun 2009 21\:31\:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8613 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > On Thu 04 Jun 2009 03:04, Neil Jerram writes: > >> I built and installed libunistring this evening, to /usr/local, and >> now ./configure is failing for me at: >> >> checking size of float... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof >> (float) > > I had this at one point today, as well, when I had installed > libunistring into /opt/foo/ but had my libdir wrong (/opt/foo/lib vs > /opt/foo/lib64)... Thanks for the ideas, Andy. I'm also wondering if libtool v1.5.26 is a factor (as against v2.2) - so now trying out libtool 2.2 from Debian testing. > While we're complaining about the build :-) It seems we require gperf > now. Is that correct? That's news to me. Where have you seen that? Regards, Neil