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warning while compiling guile 2.0.9

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14549: closed (warning while compiling guile 2.0.9)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 21:27:02 +0000

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From: ais <at> euve8129.vserver.de
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: warning while compiling guile 2.0.9
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 10:40:58 +0200

Hi guile-team

Compiling guile 2.0.9 under OpenBSD 5.2 x86


checking pthread.h usability... yes
checking pthread.h presence... yes
checking for pthread.h... yes
checking pthread_np.h usability... no
checking pthread_np.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be
Compiled"
configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING:     ## -------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to bug-guile <at> gnu.org ##
configure: WARNING:     ## -------------------------------- ##
checking for pthread_np.h... no
checking for sys/param.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/resource.h usability... yes
checking sys/resource.h pres

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From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: ais <at> euve8129.vserver.de
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 14549-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14549: warning while compiling guile 2.0.9
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 23:25:58 +0200

Hi,

Expiring this bug due to inactivity.  If you have a problem compiling
Guile 2.0.11, stable-2.0, the upcoming 2.0.12, or the beta 2.1.3, let us
know in new reports.  Thanks!

Andy

On Tue 04 Jun 2013 15:43, ais <at> euve8129.vserver.de writes:

> Hi Ludovic,
>
> thanks for the reply.
> The compilation did not succeed. There're several reasons behind it.
> One thing is that the pthread_np.h should be avoided on OpenBSD
> alltogether, since this it implements just a short fraction of functions.
> So if functions from pthread_np.h should be used, then they must be tested
> one by one and not assuming that if the file is present so are the
> functions. I simply renamed the file "pthread_np.h" to
> "pthread_np.h.original" and ran configure and this time configure
> succeeded without any complaint.
>
> The other thing with OpenBSD is, that the stock-installation of the
> Boehm-GC package is more or less broken. I compiled my own version of this
> library and then I could compile guile successfully, but the linker did
> complain about some pthread_np* functions.
> Using the stock installation/package then there's a conflict with some
> defines being set (notably: GC_REDIRECT_TO_LOCAL). The stock installation
> has no such file (gc_local_alloc.h) so the defines inside must be set
> accordingly.
>
> Currently I'm very busy to follow up this problem but I'm very willing to
> provide more information on this topic, since I keen on having a current
> version of Guile running  under OpenBSD.
>
> Sebastian
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>>
>> ais <at> euve8129.vserver.de skribis:
>>
>>> Compiling guile 2.0.9 under OpenBSD 5.2 x86
>>
>> Did compilation eventually succeed?  Did you run ‘make check’?
>>
>>> checking pthread.h usability... yes
>>> checking pthread.h presence... yes
>>> checking for pthread.h... yes
>>> checking pthread_np.h usability... no
>>> checking pthread_np.h presence... yes
>>> configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h: present but cannot be compiled
>>> configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h:     check for missing prerequisite
>>> headers?
>>> configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h: see the Autoconf documentation
>>> configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be
>>> Compiled"
>>
>> Could you send the output of:
>>
>>   grep pthread_np config.log
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>>

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