Re: guile 1.6.8 make check failure on AIX 6.1

[Rainer Tammer]

Hello,

Neil Jerram wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
OK,
this works...

Now I am getting the foolowing errors:

gc_os_dep.c:1158:1: error: "MACH_TYPE" redefined
gc_os_dep.c:1065:1: error: this is the location of the previous definition
gc_os_dep.c:1161:1: error: "ALIGNMENT" redefined
gc_os_dep.c:1066:1: error: this is the location of the previous definition

I have to look into this...

[...]
> 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?
>
>   
Thats very simple. The old build tools do not recognize AIX 6.1.

The new version of config.guess returns: powerpc-ibm-aix6.1.0.0
The old version returns: rs6000-ibm-aix

As a result of the rs6000-ibm-aix the old libtool is not able to build 
shared binaries on AIX 6.1
To be able to build on AIX 6.1 you need at least: config.guess/.sub and 
libtool 1.5.26
+ patched configure scripts (aix5* | aix6*) or autoconf-2.61a from 
January ...


> Thanks,       Neil
>
>   
Bye
 Rainer