[Gcl-devel] Re: gcl on OpenBSD

[Camm Maguire]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.lisp as well.

Greetings!

As the previous poster stated, this appears to be a simple configure
error.  Please post the full configure and build log -- this should
work for you with minimal effort.

Take care,

address@hidden (Hannah Schroeter) writes:

> Hello!
> 
> And I tried to take a plunge to try out gcl too, as has been an advice
> when I last asked about Lisp implementations for OpenBSD.
> 
> Fails too, alas, even though the GCL 2.6.2 release notes state native
> support for OpenBSD.
> 
> I tried 2.6.6, and the build fails here:
> 
> gcc -c -Wall -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer  
> -I/usr/home/hannah/src/gcl-2.6.6/o -I../h -I../gcl-tk num_co.c  
> In file included from ../h/include.h:36,
>                  from num_co.c:34:
> ../h/gclincl.h:150:2: #error "No isfinite found"
> In file included from ../h/linux.h:1,
>                  from ../h/config.h:33,
>                  from ../h/include.h:37,
>                  from num_co.c:34:
> ../h/bsd.h:89:1: warning: "HAVE_XDR" redefined
> In file included from ../h/include.h:36,
>                  from num_co.c:34:
> ../h/gclincl.h:194:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
> In file included from ../h/include.h:37,
>                  from num_co.c:34:
> ../h/config.h:69:1: warning: "HZ" redefined
> In file included from ../h/include.h:36,
>                  from num_co.c:34:
> ../h/gclincl.h:208:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
> num_co.c: In function `gcl_isnormal_double':
> num_co.c:53: warning: implicit declaration of function `ISFINITE'
> gmake[1]: *** [num_co.o] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hannah/src/gcl-2.6.6/o'
> gmake: *** [unixport/saved_pre_gcl] Error 2
> 
> Configure invocation was this:
> 
> configure  --prefix=/usr/local/gcl-2.6.6 --enable-notify=no   \
>     --enable-xdr=yes --with-x --enable-readline --enable-ansi
> 
> And: If there's some isfinite to be found, why isn't it checked for by
> configure anyway?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Hannah.

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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