Re: GNU Shishi fails to build

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis:

> There are three files:
>
>  - "diffutils-gets-undeclared.patch" (refers to "a/lib/stdio.in.h");
>  - "m4-gets-undeclared.patch" (refers to "m4-1.4.16/lib/stdio.in.h");
>  - "tar-gets-undeclared.patch" (refers to "tar-1.26/gnu/stdio.in.h").
>
> Which one should be used?
>
> Note that Shishi should use "shishi-1.0.1/gl/stdio.in.h".

In that case you’re right, you need a new patch.

>> Then you need to look at the log.  It could be that CPPFLAGS isn’t
>> honored (a bug in the build system, but that’d be surprising here.)
>
> CPPFLAGS='-DMAX_ERROR_DESCRIPTION_SIZE=ASN1_MAX_ERROR_DESCRIPTION_SIZE'

Yes?  What do you mean here?  :-)

>> Anyway, since you don’t refer to ‘system’ here, you can just write
>> ‘arguments’ as shown above.
>
> I removed "(system)", tried again, and got the following:
>
> ld: cannot find -lz
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

This is definitely unrelated to the (lambda (system) ...) thing.  Can
you copy/paste this part of the log with more context?

Thanks,
Ludo’.