Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: new binutils GCL incompatibility

[Vadim V. Zhytnikov]

Camm Maguire wrote:

> Greetings!  Just checking with you Vadim, are both of these items
> working for you now?
>

I've cleared the binutils problem at least for myself last night.
Now I'm almost 100% sure that the whole trouble is solely due to
binutils bug.  I've checked various binutils versions and found out
that only in the version which caused the problem bdf.h
inputs stdbool.h and thus creates the conflict.
In the previous and in the subsequent binutils this is not
the case and everything works fine even without any
modification.  So I'm sorry for bothering you with the problem
but I really didn't expected to find such a bug in binutils!

Problem with tk.o loading disappeared after one of your recent
patches.

Playing with various binutils and compilers I was surprised to
find out that GCL builds well with recent gcc 2.96.
A while ago I've tried gcc 2.96.  GCL and Maxima
compiled without trouble but Maxima gave weird results
on meny problems like integrate(x,x) etc.
Lowering optimization level as was recommended by DR. Shelter
did not help and I decided that  GCL with gcc 2.96 is completely
broken.  But now it works.  At least I don't see any visible errors
but maybe some more extensive testing is required.

>
> Take care,
>
> "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I've been trying to resolve recent Maxima/GCL incompatibility
> > and suddenly discovered other problem with GCL.  GCL no longer
> > builds on my system.  With gcc 2.95.3 compilation stops with
> > error message
> > ----------------------------------
> > gcc -pipe -fwritable-strings  -DVOL=volatile
> > -I/home/vadim/test/111/o -fsigned-char -c -O  -I../gcl-tk -I../h/
> > -O4   sfasl.c
> > In file included from /usr/include/bfd.h:36,
> >                  from sfaslelf.c:42,
> >                  from sfasl.c:40:
> > /usr/include/ansidecl.h:186: warning: `DEFUN' redefined
> > ../h/../h/notcomp.h:60: warning: this is the location of the
> > previous definition
> > In file included from /usr/include/bfd.h:103,
> >                  from sfaslelf.c:42,
> >                  from sfasl.c:40:
> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-alt-linux/2.95.3/include/stdbool.h:11:
> > conflicting types for `bool'
> > ../h/../h/object.h:66: previous declaration of `bool'
> > ----------------------------------
> > With gcc 2.96 and 3.0.3 build succeed but result is not
> > operational.
> > Attempts to load binary files fail
> > ----------------------------------
> > (cd /home/vadim/tmp/gcl-buildroot/usr/lib/gcl-2.5.0/gcl-tk/demos
> > ; \
> > echo '(load "../tkl.o")(TK::GET-AUTOLOADS (directory "*.lisp"))'
> > | ../../unixport/saved_gcl) ; fi
> > GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  Version(2.5.0) Sun May 12 14:02:28 MSD
> > 2002
> > Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
> > Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter
> >
> > >
> > Loading ../tkl.o
> > Not enough space in bfd_buf 4064 752
> > make[1]: *** [install1] Error 1
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > Fortunately this time I know precisely which part of the system
> > is responsible.  The problem occurred when I upgraded
> > binutils 2.11.90.0.31 together with libbfd and libiberty
> > to binutils 2.11.93.0.2.  When I downgraded binutils
> > the problem immediately disappeared.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Vadim
> >
> > --
> >      Vadim V. Zhytnikov
> >
> >       <address@hidden>
> >     <address@hidden>
> >      <address@hidden>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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