Re: Any New Guile Release Planned ?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:10:15 +0300
> From: Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov@gmail.com>
> 
> > The reason I ask is that we rely on Gnulib for these portability
> > things.  The <sys/select.h> in libguile/iselect.h is supposed to do the
> > right thing; if it’s not, we should (1) update our Gnulib copy, and (2)
> > fix the problem in Gnulib if it’s still there.
> 
> OK, on my system (Debian jessie (stable)) guile builds well under
> MinGW.  However, when I'm trying to compile geda-gaf it complains:
> 
> In file included from
> /home/user/minipack/result/include/guile/2.0/libguile/threads.h:31:0,
>                  from
> /home/user/minipack/result/include/guile/2.0/libguile/async.h:29,
>                  from
> /home/user/minipack/result/include/guile/2.0/libguile.h:37,
>                  from ./../include/libgeda_priv.h:4,
>                  from scheme_init.c:26:
> /home/user/minipack/result/include/guile/2.0/libguile/iselect.h:31:24:
> fatal error: sys/select.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <sys/select.h>
>                         ^
> compilation terminated.
> make[4]: *** [scheme_init.x] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> AFAICS, mingw package in Debian has the winsock2.h headers while I
> don't see any select.h

MinGW indeed doesn't have sys/select.h, but gnulib, included in Guile,
provides it.

So I think Ludovic is right, and showing the complete compiler command
line will give some hints.  I'm guessing something related to -I
switches or maybe even -isystem.