Re: 1.8 build problem

[Neil Jerram]

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