Re: GNU Guile 1.9.5 released (alpha)

[Linas Vepstas]

2009/11/28 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:
> Hi Linas,
>
> Linas Vepstas <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> error: non-local function ‘static<anonymous struct>*
>> opencog::SchemeSmob::ss_incoming_set(<anonymous struct>*)’ uses
>> anonymous type
>
> Lilypond is written in C++ and...  (looks at the logs...)  ... it has
> the same problem, starting from 1.9.5
> (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/157322/log/raw).
>
> So this must be related to static subr allocation and suchlike.  Can you
> try commenting out ‘# define SCM_SUPPORT_STATIC_ALLOCATION’ in
> ‘snarf.h’?

No, that doesn't fix it. However, the following does:

--- libguile/tags.h.orig        2009-11-28 19:18:36.000000000 -0600
+++ libguile/tags.h     2009-11-28 19:18:52.000000000 -0600
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 /* This is the default, which provides an intermediate level of compile time
  * type checking while still resulting in very efficient code.
  */
-    typedef struct { char scm_unused_field; } * SCM;
+    typedef struct ___stuff___ { char scm_unused_field; } * SCM;

 /*
   The 0?: constructions makes sure that the code is never executed,


googleing the error messages indicates that anonymous structs
are OK in C, but are somehow bad form in C++, thus gcc
generates this error. I don't understand why this would matter.

--linas