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Re: 1.8 build problem
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Neil Jerram |
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Re: 1.8 build problem |
Date: |
Thu, 04 May 2006 16:59:57 +0100 |
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James Bergstra <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:53:35AM -0400, James Bergstra wrote:
>> > I'm on Fedora core, AMD64, with guile 1.6 already installed in /usr/bin,
>> > the
>> > compiler is gcc 4.2.0. I want to install guile 1.8 in my account, so I
>> >
>> > 1. download the 1.8 tgz
>> > 2. issue ./configure --prefix=~/pub/64 (no problem)
>> > 3. issue make. no problem during compiling... then... it hangs. So I
>> > kill it,
>> > and reissue make. It hangs again, after printing the following text:
>> ....
>> >
>> > what's up with that?
>>
>> ...this problem disappeared when I used gcc 3.2 instead.
> It doesn't seem to work with 4.0 either. If this is a known issue, maybe it
> would be good for ./configure to validate the arch/compiler pair?
If we end up deciding that the problem is caused by a compiler bug in
GCC 4, that would make sense. It's more likely though that there is a
real problem in the Guile source code, so we would prefer to find and
fix that.
Regards,
Neil