bug#23870: Guile 2.0.11 can't find clock_getcpuclockid on macOS 10.12 Sierra

[Andy Wingo]

On Wed 29 Jun 2016 14:53, Rahul AG <address@hidden> writes:

> Guile version: 2.0.11
> Machine type: x86_64-apple-darwin16.0.0
>
> macOS 10.12 introduces the `clock_gettime` family of functions, with slight 
> differences from the *BSD and Linux implementations.
>
> The failure in linking is caused by a call at libguile/stime.c @ L841
> to `clock_getcpuclockid`, which does NOT exist on macOS, while
> `_POSIX_CPUTIME` and `CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID` do exist.
>
> I have an absolutely hideous patch[1] locally applied that gets things
> compiling (and get-internal-run-time seems to work), but is otherwise
> terrible from a readability and maintainability standpoint. That said,
> narrowing it down to that single call should help make this fix
> easier.

Hi, this is fixed in 2.1.7 and now also in 2.0 git.  I guess a
subsequent 2.0.15 will include this fix.  Thanks for the report.

Andy