Hi, Alex
Thank you for the hint

attached is the config.log after run ./configure --prefix=/opt/guile-2.2.4

It seems the version of gcc  is too old to use --std=c11
# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap
--enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release
--with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
--disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada
--enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre
--enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode
--with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar
--disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic
--with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23) (GCC)




i would like to test a higher version gcc , and get back  if i have any updates


On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 1:51 PM Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello An,
>
> Can you also upload the 'config.log' file? As it may contain some hints
> on why it is failing.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> An Liu <sourceonly@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi, List
> >
> > I'm trying to compile guile-2.2.4 on CentOS 6.10, but failed
> >
> > - why guile-2.2.4?
> > I want to try artanis which requires guile-2.2+, and yum repos only
> > have guile-1.8, so i decide to compile install myself
> >
> > - CentOS release
> > # cat /etc/centos-release
> >  CentOS release 6.10 (Final)
> > # uname -a
> > Linux test 2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 14 20:46:41 UTC
> > 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > - guile release
> > # curl -O https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.2.4.tar.xz
> >
> > - configure error
> > # ./configure --prefix=/opt/guile-2.2.4
> > ...
> > checking whether sigpending is declared without a macro... no
> > checking whether sigprocmask is declared without a macro... no
> > checking for socklen_t... no
> > checking for socklen_t equivalent... configure: error: Cannot find a
> > type to use in place of socklen_t
> >
> >
> > it stops at socklen_t, as config_log attached
> >
> > I've no idea of this as /usr/include/sys/socket.h exists there and
> > socklen_t should have be defined.
> >
> > I've google for this error but hardly got any solutions.
> > Any suggestion on this?  I don't think trying to modify the
> > "sys/socket.h" is a good idea.
> >
> > or is there guile-2.2+ rpm release for centos 6
> >
> > BTW, how long would it take for me to build guile from source code (i7
> > 6500Ux4, with 8GB RAM, laptop) , the manual of artanis says it would
> > take quite a long time even seem like halt.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.



-- 
Liu An