From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cesar Strauss Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Building shared libs (DLL) under Cygwin (1.8.4) Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:47:03 -0300 Message-ID: <481A1027.3010700@gmail.com> References: <1ca1c1410804301357y5d9023c5ha5ddedcd17e69666@mail.gmail.com> <87iqxyz93k.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209667650 31547 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 18:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 18:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Neil Jerram To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 20:48:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jrdox-0008U1-EW for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 20:47:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52719 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrdoG-0001dC-6J for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrdoD-0001d6-08 for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrdoB-0001cs-9r for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39560 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrdoB-0001co-5p for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mastercea.das.inpe.br ([150.163.28.1]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrdoA-00009M-OP for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 14:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [150.163.28.182] (asimov.cea.inpe.br [150.163.28.182]) by mastercea.das.inpe.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C3016C045A; Thu, 1 May 2008 15:28:35 -0300 (BRT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <87iqxyz93k.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6552 Archived-At: Neil Jerram wrote: > "Aaron Turner" writes: > >> I'm trying to rebuild Guile 1.8.4 under Cygwin (latest stable) because >> the Cygwin packages seem to have some serious problems (I've been told >> it was built with the wrong version of gcc). Everything seems ok >> (configure && make report no errors), but when it's all said and done, >> all I get is a static library. [snip] >> Please try this: make clean libtoolize --copy --force ./configure make make install It seems the particular version of libtool included in guile 1.8.4 is somewhat broken on mingw/cygwin. The above worked for me on both platforms. > > I would suggest working with the Cygwin people on this. They are more > likely to be familiar with this kind of issue (which probably comes > from how the autotools work on Cygwin), and if there's a problem with > the current Guile in Cygwin, it would be much better to fix that for > all Cygwin users. I agree, that would be best. > > (FWIW, when I last updated a couple of weeks ago, the Cygwin Guile > version was 1.8.2. I've been using that successfully and haven't seen > any critical problems. I did see a problem with open-input-pipe > hanging, but worked around that by writing to a temporary file instead > and then re-reading from that file.) As far as I could follow the discussion, it seems the Autogen tool used to crash frequently, but worked when Guile was compiled from source. Regards, Cesar