[gambit-list] Failed to build Gambit v4.6.0 on i586 (builds fine on x86-64)

Paul Wolneykien manowar at altlinux.org
Thu Apr 14 14:09:40 EDT 2011


12.04.2011 18:40, Marc Feeley пишет:
> 
> On 2011-04-12, at 3:36 AM, Paul Wolneykien wrote:
> 
>>
>>  Hi, Marc.
>>
>>  Would you be so kind as to look at my build log? I probably do
>> something wrong…
>>
>>
>>  TIA,
>>
>>    Paul.
> 
> Building Gambit with an older version of Gambit is a tricky business.  The "make update" target is supposed to automate this process (if you have built v4.5.3 with the "-devel" tar file).  Unfortunately, that target has a bug (which is not yet fixed, and in any case would not fix v4.5.3 that you have installed on your machine!).
> 
> If you want to build with the latest changes from the repository using Gambit v4.5.3 then you can use this recipe:
> 
> git clone "http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/repo/gambit.git"
> 
> cd gambit/gsc
> 
> echo "(define ##os-bat-extension-string-saved \"\")" > missing.scm
> 
> gsc -exe -o ../gsc-comp missing.scm _host.scm _utils.scm _source.scm _parms.scm _env.scm _ptree1.scm _ptree2.scm _gvm.scm _back.scm _front.scm _prims.scm _t-c-1.scm _t-c-2.scm _t-c-3.scm _gsclib.scm _gsc.scm

  Thanks, I'll try to build the bootstrap using the commands above.
Nevertheless, I want to set up a build process on a regular basis. So,
it would be nice to use some make target instead of a number of
filenames on the command line as it may change over time.

> 
> cd ..
> 
> ./configure --enable-single-host
> make
> make check
> 
> As you can see it builds gsc-comp (the bootstrap compiler) from the latest gsc sources using the Gambit v4.5.3 compiler.  So gsc-comp is a v4.5.3 program which when executed compiles Scheme code according to the logic of the latest compiler (v4.6.1 + latest changes).  This almost works automatically...  I had to add a definition for ##os-bat-extension-string-saved which is used by the file _gsclib.scm to invoke the shell script bin/gambc-cc which invokes the C compiler.  That definition has been added recently to fix a bug on CYGWIN.  Its value depends on the configure script, which affects a definition in lib/os.c, which lib/_kernel.scm accesses to produce the binding of ##os-bat-extension-string-saved.
> 
> Marc

  If I understand you right, there is no need to build the bootstrap
twice in a row (make bootstrap, update version, make bootclean; make
bootstrap)?


  TIA,

    Paul.



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