From: Suvrit Sra
Subject: Trouble compiling gcl-2.4.0
Date: 
Message-ID: <sgfelpq6hgf.fsf@dufftown.cs.utexas.edu>
Hi

I downloaded gcl-2.4.0 sources recently and tried to compile them on
my Redhat 7.1 box and the compilation did not complete. I then
upgraded my gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.1 hoping that could solve
problems...but still gcl does not compile. 

I have a feeling that this problem has got to do something with make
or sed or gcc because gcl-2.4.0 compiled just fine for me on Redhat
6.1!!

Any pointers on what could be going wrong?

Thanks
-- 
Suvrit Sra
From: Michael A. Koerber
Subject: Re: Trouble compiling gcl-2.4.0
Date: 
Message-ID: <3B94C699.402FA019@ll.mit.edu>
Suvrit Sra wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I downloaded gcl-2.4.0 sources recently and tried to compile them on
> my Redhat 7.1 box and the compilation did not complete. I then
> upgraded my gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.1 hoping that could solve
> problems...but still gcl does not compile.
> 
> I have a feeling that this problem has got to do something with make
> or sed or gcc because gcl-2.4.0 compiled just fine for me on Redhat
> 6.1!!

Yes...I had this type of problem to and found that w/ RH 7.x that EMACS
produced a multi-line output, not a single line output that was expected
in the CONFIGURE program.  Below is a hack that I sent to WFS for future
incorporation...I hope this  works for your problem.


===== HACK FOLLOWS =====
[····@koerber gcl-2.4.0]# diff configure makconfigure
2555c2555
< EMACS_SITE_LISP=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 | sed -e
/Loading/d `
---
> EMACS_SITE_LISP=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 | sed -e /Loading/d | sed -e /load/d`
2596c2596
< INFO_DIR=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 | sed -e /Loading/d `
---
> INFO_DIR=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 | sed -e /Loading/d | sed -e /load/d `
3215d3214
< 

=== END OF HACK ====

mak
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From: Nels Tomlinson
Subject: Re: Trouble compiling gcl-2.4.0
Date: 
Message-ID: <3B95B2AE.50301@purdue.edu>
Wow! Thanks!

I struggled with that for quite a while, but didn't know quite enough 
about what was going on to figure it out.  I'll give this a try.

Thanks again,
Nels

Michael A. Koerber wrote:
> Suvrit Sra wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>I downloaded gcl-2.4.0 sources recently and tried to compile them on
>>my Redhat 7.1 box and the compilation did not complete. I then
>>upgraded my gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.1 hoping that could solve
>>problems...but still gcl does not compile.
>>
>>I have a feeling that this problem has got to do something with make
>>or sed or gcc because gcl-2.4.0 compiled just fine for me on Redhat
>>6.1!!
>>
> 
> Yes...I had this type of problem to and found that w/ RH 7.x that EMACS
> produced a multi-line output, not a single line output that was expected
> in the CONFIGURE program.  Below is a hack that I sent to WFS for future
> incorporation...I hope this  works for your problem.
> 
> 
> ===== HACK FOLLOWS =====
> [····@koerber gcl-2.4.0]# diff configure makconfigure
> 2555c2555
> < EMACS_SITE_LISP=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 | sed -e
> /Loading/d `
> ---
> 
>>EMACS_SITE_LISP=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 | sed -e /Loading/d | sed -e /load/d`
>>
> 2596c2596
> < INFO_DIR=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 | sed -e /Loading/d `
> ---
> 
>>INFO_DIR=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 | sed -e /Loading/d | sed -e /load/d `
>>
> 3215d3214
> < 
> 
> === END OF HACK ====
> 
> mak
>
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