Re: [Gcl-devel] build failure on x86_64 linux

[Wolfgang Pichl]

Hi Jerry,

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Jerry James wrote:

> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> I'm the Fedora maintainer, so those patches are my fault. :-)  One of
> them makes it unnecessary to switch off brk randomization for the
> entire box, if that matters to you (gcl-2.6.8-unrandomize.patch).

I tried two patches from a gcl-2.6.7-14.fc7 source RPM I happened two find 
somewhere on the web. The first one, gcl-bash.patch, solved a syntax error 
in the configure script, the other one, gcl-pers.patch, seems to be 
supposed to work around the brk randomization problem, but this did not 
work for me, I still had to disable the randomization. Probably there are 
newer and better patches, I just used, what I found by googling. Anyway, 
I'll give up with 2.6.7 and hope to get the CVS version to work.

> Also, note that the -lz problem has been fixed in CVS, and a number of
> the Fedora patches have been applied as well.

Yes, in the CVS the -lz problem and also the brk problem seem to be 
fixed.
> > Therefore I decided to use the CVS. This worked much better, but finally
> > also failed.
>
> That's a strange failure.  I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark
> here.  Does adding -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS help?
I'll try this tomorrow, because I am not in my office yet. Many thanks for 
the tip.

best regards
Wolfgang Pichl