[Gcl-devel] GCL on windows broken by recent change to MAXPAGE

[David Billinghurst]

BACKGROUND
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I have been revisiting Version_2_6_8pre on windows.  I use gcl to build 
the Maxima release for Windows.  This is still based on gcc-3.3.1.  I 
have also been trying to build gcl with current mingw/msys/gcc.

Under Windows XP I have been able to build cvs gcl and recent maxima 
releases with the following tools

$ msysinfo
MSYS 1.0.17(0.48/3/2) 2011-04-24 23:39 i686 unknown; targ=MINGW32
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-pc-msys); ENV=.profile
GNU Make 3.81This program built for i686-pc-msys; MAKE_MODE=unix
gcc.exe (GCC) 4.7.2; targ=MINGW32
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1


PROBLEM
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The changed definition to MAXPAGE in h/gclinc.h.in on 23 April breaks 
the Windows build.

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gcl/h/gclincl.h.in?root=gcl&r1=1.27.6.10.8.1.4.1.4.10&r2=1.27.6.10.8.1.4.1.4.11&pathrev=Version_2_6_8pre

Reverting this change unbreaks it.

The end of the build session is


/usr/local/src/gcl-20130501/unixport/raw_pre_gcl.exe 
/usr/local/src/gcl-20130501/unixport/ -libdir 
/usr/local/src/gcl-20130501/ < foo

Unrecoverable error: Can't allocate.  Good-bye!.

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual 
way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
make[1]: *** [saved_pre_gcl] Error 3
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gcl-20130501/unixport'
make: *** [unixport/saved_pre_gcl] Error 2