[Axiom-mail] Re: Options for building GCL from Axiom

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <address@hidden> writes:

| > 
| >   Do we know why don't systematically use this
| > 
| >     It turns out that we can successfully build GCL on many more systems
| >     if we set the [[GCLOPTS]] to build a local [[BFD]].
| >     <<GCLOPTS-LOCBFD>>=
| >     GCLOPTS="--enable-vssize=65536*2 --enable-locbfd --disable-dynsysbfd \
| >              --disable-statsysbfd --enable-maxpage=256*1024"
| > 
| > everywhere, when we think we must build GCL?
| > 
| 
| only that it needs to be tested. not everything works everywhere.
| for instance, i've renewed my freebsd struggle and GCL won't build
| there due to 
|    "error: Initializer element is not constant"
| which happens nowhere else. so i have to figure out what random
| combination of switches will fix this (i HATE C).

I asked because recently you had a problem building GCL and it turned
out that Camm's recommandation was to enable local bfd for GCL.  I
believed you reported success with that.

The error "error: Initializer element is not constant" looks to me
like a programming error than anything else -- I agree with the
assessment that C's notion of "constant expression" is primitive, but
that is not the point here...

-- Gaby