Re: ERROR: In procedure scm_i_lreadparen: #<unknown port>:1:7: end of file

[Neil Jerram]

"Andrius Burokas (javamustang)" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
>   I'm having troubles to compile guile from source (guile-1.8.6). I am getting
> these errors:

> ERROR: In procedure scm_i_lreadparen:
> ERROR: #<unknown port>:1:7: end of file
> make[3]: *** [guile-procedures.texi] Error 1

Can you post the first 10 lines of your libguile/alist.doc file?

> For the elimination of previous errors I modified the file /libguile/guile.c:
> Changed lines
>
> #ifdef __MINGW32__
> # define SCM_IMPORT 1
> #endif
>
> with
>
> #ifdef __MINGW32__
> # undef SCM_IMPORT
> #endif
>
> The purpose of this modification was to eliminate these undefined references:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/Andrius/guile-1.8.6/libguile'
> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -D__MINGW32__ -Wall
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror   -o guile.exe guile-guile.o libguile.la -lgmp
> -lws2_32 -lm -lltdl
> libtool: link: gcc -D__MINGW32__ -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -o .libs/
> guile.exe guile-guile.o  ./.libs/libguile.a -lgmp -lws2_32 -lltdl
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x23): undefined reference to `_imp__gdb_options'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x2d): undefined reference to 
> `_imp__gdb_language'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x37): undefined reference to `_imp__gdb_result'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x41): undefined reference to `_imp__gdb_output'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x4b): undefined reference to
> `_imp__gdb_output_length'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x55): undefined reference to
> `_imp__gdb_maybe_valid_type_p'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x5f): undefined reference to `_imp__gdb_read'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x69): undefined reference to `_imp__gdb_eval'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x73): undefined reference to `_imp__gdb_print'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x7d): undefined reference to `_imp__gdb_binding'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0x94): undefined reference to `_imp__scm_shell'
> guile-guile.o:guile.c:(.text+0xe9): undefined reference to
> `_imp__scm_boot_guile'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [guile.exe] Error 1
>
> In either way, I can't finish building the package successfully. I don't know
> if the modification to guile.c causes the texi errors or not. But I'd
> appreciate some comments on my situation.

I would say those import errors are unconnected to the
scm_i_lreadparen problem.

Thanks,
        Neil