Re: Guile 1.5.2 beta ready for testing. (Irix 5.3)

[Rob Browning]

Bill Schottstaedt <address@hidden> writes:

> I noticed two glitches in the 1.5.2 installation on the Irix 5.3.
> I still hit the lt_preloaded_symbols problem mentioned earlier.
> It is triggered by DYNAMIC_LOADING begin defined (by configure),
> and used in libguile/guile.c at the line (89):
>
> #ifdef DYNAMIC_LINKING
>   LTDL_SET_PRELOADED_SYMBOLS ();
> #endif

I'm wondering if this might be a libtool version issue as well.  Does
that seem likely?

> libguile/Makefile uses the --force switch to makeinfo;
> my version of this program is so old (Jul 95) that it
> doesn't accept this switch and causes the entire build
> to halt.  I deleted --force.

Hmm.  Well I'm not sure what to do about this.  Either you need a
newer makeinfo, or we'll need an autoconf test for the version of
makeinfo and choose to use --force as appropriate.

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Rob Browning
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