Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken on Solaris 9

[Felix Winkelmann]

Bruce Hoult wrote:
> I'm attempting to build from the Chicken 1.12 tarball on the following
> system:
>
> telecomdev1:~$ uname -a
> SunOS telecomdev1 5.9 Generic_112233-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
> telecomdev1:~$ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.2.3

Hi, Bruce! How are ya?

> Problems encountered so far:
>
> - missing dlopen et al when linking .libs/libchicken.so.0.0.0
>
>   dlopen is in libdl, configure is detecting this and adding -ldl
>   to SHLIBS, but the linker command line doesn't contain -ldl.
>
>   For now I've modified configure.in to add -ldl to LIBS, but this
>   doesn't seem to be the correct way to do it.

That's correct.

> - missing nanosleep when linking .libs/libchicken.so.0.0.0
>
>   I've added to configure.in:
>   AC_CHECK_LIB(rt, nanosleep, [LIBS="$LIBS -lrt"])

Oops, thanks.

> - lots of warnings for implicit declration of alloca
>   - done nothing as yet

Hm. You get this with gcc, right?

> - warnings: 
>   runtime.c: In function `parse_argv':
>   runtime.c:430: warning: subscript has type `char'
>   runtime.c:434: warning: subscript has type `char'
>
>   - done nothing

Shouldn't be critical.

> Are these problems likely to have been fixed in cvs?

Not quite. Matthias Koeppe had the same problems on Solaris, but
I haven't checked this in, yet. He also proposed some changes
regarding handling alloca.h properly, which will also be checked
in tonight (I hope).

> What is the best way to fix the -ldl problem that won't break other
> platforms?

Setting LIBS is the right way, I believe.


cheers,
felix