Re: [Gcl-devel] Does the --enable-ansi config option work?

[Paul F. Dietz]

Camm Maguire wrote:

> OK, this is the infamous buggy redhat gcc snapshot, never intented for
> release by the gcc people.  Please try *any* other released gcc
> version -- 2.95, 3.0, or 3.1.  I'll wager this clears everything up,
> but if not, kindly please compile gcl with -g (in linux.defs), omit
> the -fomit-frame-pointer flag, and then run the compilation command
> governing macros.lisp in gdb, and report where the segfault is.
> 
> Come to think of it, I've just increased the level of optimization
> passed to gcc by gcl in the command-line flags.  If I recall, there
> was a work around for this buggy redhat gcc by lowering the
> optimization level.  You could also try that, if you want -- take '-O6
> -fomit-frame-pointer' down to '-O2' or '-O', for example.  But in
> general, gcl probably shouldn't waste too much time supporting this
> mistaken gcc release.

I had configured with --enable-ansi --enable-dlopen.  When I tried
just --enable-ansi the build succeeded.

I'm getting a machine with Mandrake 8.2 preinstalled in a few days,
so I'll rebuild on that when it arrives.

        Paul