Re: guile 1.6.8 make check failure on AIX 6.1

[Neil Jerram]

Rainer Tammer <address@hidden> writes:

> In file included from ../libguile/gc.h:27,
>                 from ../libguile.h:73,
>                 from discouraged.c:22:
> ../libguile/hooks.h:43: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '.' token
> ../libguile/hooks.h:48: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
> before 'scm_t_c_hook_function'

The fix for that is to globally replace "func_data" in libguile/*.[ch]
by "fn_data".  This is already in our CVS, so will be OK in 1.8.4.

> The following is true for both guile 1.6.x and 1.8.x:
>
> The build tools used (config.guess, libtool, autoconf) are to old for
> AIX 6.1.
> With the old tools it is not possible to build a shared version.

[...]

> For the build tools I have used the following versions:
>
> * config.guess: GNU config.guess (2008-01-07)
> * libtool:  libtool --version / ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.25a
> (1.1220.2.481 2008/01/12 13:58:43)
> * manual patch to configure; add aix6* after each aix5* -> I did not
> want to regenerated the whole thing with the new autoconf

OK, we can look into upgrading to these... but can you give specific
references for the AIX problems that were fixed in between the
versions that we used for 1.6.8/1.8.3 and the versions here?

Thanks,
        Neil