Oh heck. Glibc 2.1 (was Re: Problem with tutorial for swarm-1.4.1

[Paul E. Johnson]

I wonder if there are any other early birds who've come across these
problems related to the recent RH 6.0.

"Marcus G. Daniels" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "KL" == Konrad Lang <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> KL> :./bug bug: Too many arguments Try `bug --help' or `bug --usage'
> KL> for more information.
> 
> Is this a new glibc-2.1-based Redhat or Debian system?
> If so, you can avoid this problem by removing all the argp* functions
> from the src/misc/Makefile and rebuilding/reinstalling (be sure to
> delete libmisc.la).

I installed RH6.0 today and ran into that problem Konrad described
trying to use the swarm rpms compiled for RH5.2.  Then I remembered the
above note from Marcus.  I did ./configure on the swarm source to
generate the Makefile MD mentioned above, and then deleted the argp*
functions in src/misc/makefile.  However, when I try to build swarm, I
get the following error.  I freely admit that there may be some missing
library in this system, as it is a "completely clean" and innocent
setup.

Making all in objectbase
make[3]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/swarm-1.4.1/src/objectbase'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/swarm-1.4.1/src/objectbase'
Making all in tclobjc
make[3]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/swarm-1.4.1/src/tclobjc'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..
-I./../misc     -D_GNU_SOURCE -DList=TclObjcList
-DTCL_LIBRARY=\"/usr/lib/tcl8.0\" -DTK_LIBRARY=\"/usr/lib/tk8.0\"   -g
-O2 -Wall -Wno-import -Wno-protocol -Werror -I/usr/X11R6/include
-Wno-implicit-int -c tclObjc.m
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I./../misc -D_GNU_SOURCE
-DList=TclObjcList -DTCL_LIBRARY=\"/usr/lib/tcl8.0\"
-DTK_LIBRARY=\"/usr/lib/tk8.0\" -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-import -Wno-protocol
-Werror -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wno-implicit-int -c -fPIC -DPIC tclObjc.m
tclObjc.m:115: macro `strchr' used without args
make[3]: *** [tclObjc.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/swarm-1.4.1/src/tclobjc'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/swarm-1.4.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/swarm-1.4.1'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

On the other hand, it may be tcl/tk biting me in the rump again.  This
distribution came with tcl 8.0.4.  I've looked at various files that
have strchr in /usr/include and compared against RH5.2 and don't see
what if anything has changed.

I have already rebuilt and installed libffi-1.20, no problem.

I did try to build hdf5 and met ignominious defeat as well, but I'm
looking into that in the hdf5 resources.


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