Re: problems building on OSF1

[Anselm Helbig]

Sorry for the delay and for messing up the threading, I'm afraid my
spamfilter ate your last mail, Eli. 

> Oops, sorry, my faulty memory tricked me.  You are right, the
> configure script doesn't test for the IPv6 support, it assumes that
> any system that has AF_INET6 defined in its system headers support v6,
> with the single exception of Windows.  Are you saying that OSF1 is
> another exception?

Oh, I see. I previously thought the emacs build process was defining
AF_INET6 somewhere, but it's defined in /usr/include/sys/socket.h on
my machine (it identifies as "Digital UNIX V4.0F (Rev. 1229)", btw). I
can't tell if there is a working IPv6 implementation with an odd
calling convention or additional header files somewhere on the
system. Maybe I'll have a chat with our system administrators about
that. Anyway, disabling IPv6 on OSF1 is a possible workaround.

So, after some searching on the internet I found out that the "Network
Programmer's Guide" for V4.0F does not mention AF_INET6, but later
versions (for V5.X) do. Maybe that's a hint. It's also suspicious that
socket.h has a greater ctime (Feb 2000) than the other header files in
the same directory (Apr 1999). Maybe I should _really_ talk to our
sysadmins...

> > And breaking at Fsignal does not seem to be sufficient, temacs just
> > terminates with an error without reaching the breakpoint at Fsignal.
> 
> That's strange.  Can you tell what exactly did you type, starting with
> the GDB invocation?

this is what I do in ./src: 

  $ gdb temacs
  GNU gdb 5.2.1
  Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
  welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
  Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
  There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
  This GDB was configured as "alpha-dec-osf4"...
  Environment variable "DISPLAY" not defined.
  TERM = xterm
  Breakpoint 1 at 0x1201537c0: file sysdep.c, line 1383.
  (gdb) break Fsignal
  Breakpoint 2 at 0x1201c7cbc: file eval.c, line 1622.
  (gdb) run -batch -l loadup dump
  Starting program: 
/amd/molgix/4/home/abt_lh/helbig/compile/tru64/emacs-22.0.90/src/temacs -batch 
-l loadup dump
  Loading loadup.el (source)...
  Using load-path (/home/helbig/compile/tru64/emacs-22.0.90/lisp)
  Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
  Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
  Loading subr...
  Symbol's value as variable is void: nil

  Program exited with code 0377.
  You can't do that without a process to debug.
  (gdb) 

Am I doing something wrong? 

Regards, 

Anselm