Re: build failure just trying to build guile-1.8.7 natively

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:11:51PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   as a followup to my earlier plea for help, i downloaded the
> > guile-1.8.7 tarball and tried to build it on my (effectively) fedora
> > 12 system, and ran into exactly the same error:
>
> > ERROR: unknown doc attribute: (location (string . alist.c) (int . 40)
> > (hash . hash))
>
> This is caused by new cpp which inserts linemarkers where it didn't
> before.
>
> For example:
>
> #define X(a, b) a, __FILE__, __LINE__, b
> X(a,
> b)
>
> results in:
>
> a,
>  "a.c"
> # 2 "a.c"
>  ,
>  3
> # 2 "a.c"
>  , b
>
> Adding -P option to cpp in guile-snarf-docs fixes the problem.

  yes, i've verified that adding a patch for that fixes the
openembedded build.  thanks muchly, you can close the BZ report at
your leisure.

rday
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