Re: [platform-testers] GNU poke 3.90.2 pre-released in alpha.gnu.org

[Jose E. Marchesi]

>
>> Am 08.02.2024 um 12:35 schrieb Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org>:
>> GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible
>> editor for binary data.  Not limited to editing basic entities such as
>> bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive
>> programming language designed to describe data structures and to
>> operate on them.
>> 
>> The pre-release poke-3.90.2.tar.gz is now available at
>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-3.90.2.tar.gz.
>> 
>> The planned date for releasing 4.0 is Saturday 10 February 2024, but
>> this may change depending on the amount of problems found in this
>> pre-release, and the subsequent needed additional pre-releases.
>> 
>> Please report any problem found with the pre-release, comments or
>> patches to poke-devel@gnu.org.
>
> I am currently trying to compile it on Solaris 10 x86 with GCC 5.5 and
> get the following compilation error:
>
> /opt/csw/bin/gcc-5.5 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I../gl -I../gl -I../common 
> -I../libpoke -I../libpoke -DJITTER_VERSION=\"0.9.303\" 
> -DPKGINFODIR=\"/opt/csw/share/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/csw/share/locale\" 
> -I/opt/csw/include -D_REENTRANT -Wall -O2 -pipe -fno-omit-frame-pointer -m32 
> -march=pentiumpro -MT poke-pk-cmd-def.o -MD -MP -MF .
> deps/poke-pk-cmd-def.Tpo -c -o poke-pk-cmd-def.o `test -f 'pk-cmd-def.c' || 
> echo './'`pk-cmd-def.c 
> mv -f .deps/poke-pk-cmd-def.Tpo .deps/poke-pk-cmd-def.Po 
> ld: warning: symbol 'numfnames' has differing sizes: 
>         (file /lib/libtermcap.so value=0x88; file /opt/csw/lib/libncurses.so 
> value=0xa0);  
>         /lib/libtermcap.so definition taken 
> ld: warning: symbol 'acs_map' has differing sizes:
>         (file /lib/libtermcap.so value=0x4; file /opt/csw/lib/libncurses.so 
> value=0x200); 
>         /lib/libtermcap.so definition taken  
> ld: warning: symbol 'boolnames' has differing sizes: 
>         (file /lib/libtermcap.so value=0x98; file /opt/csw/lib/libncurses.so 
> value=0xb4);
>         /lib/libtermcap.so definition taken 
> ld: warning: symbol 'boolfnames' has differing sizes:  
>         (file /lib/libtermcap.so value=0x98; file /opt/csw/lib/libncurses.so 
> value=0xb4); 
>         /lib/libtermcap.so definition taken
> ld: warning: symbol 'numnames' has differing sizes: 
>         (file /lib/libtermcap.so value=0x88; file /opt/csw/lib/libncurses.so 
> value=0xa0);  
>         /lib/libtermcap.so definition taken 
> ld: warning: symbol 'ttytype' has differing sizes:
>         (file /lib/libtermcap.so value=0x400; file /opt/csw/lib/libncurses.so 
> value=0x100); 
>         /lib/libtermcap.so definition taken  
> ld: warning: symbol 'curses_version' has differing types: 
>         (file /lib/libtermcap.so type=OBJT; file /opt/csw/lib/libncurses.so 
> type=FUNC);
>         /lib/libtermcap.so definition taken 
> ld: warning: symbol 'strcodes' has differing sizes:  
>         (file /lib/libtermcap.so value=0x62c; file /opt/csw/lib/libncurses.so 
> value=0x67c); 
>         /lib/libtermcap.so definition taken
> Undefined                       first referenced 
>  symbol                             in file  
> GC_is_init_called                   ../libpoke/.libs/libpoke.so 
> ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/poke
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status 
> gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:2981: poke] Error 1  
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
> '/home/dam/mgar/pkg/poke/trunk/work/solaris10-i386/build-isa-pentium_pro/poke-3.90.2/poke'
>  
>
> The warnings are most likely unrelated to the issue and I don’t expect any
> problems from it. However, the undefined symbol looks bad. I guess you already
> have an idea what is happening here.

Hello, thanks for helping the testing of the prerelese.

Could you please send us the complete compilation terminal output, as
well as your config.log?

Thanks!