[Gcl-devel] building gcl-2.6.8pre on nexenta OpenSolaris

[Bill Page]

Camm,

After successfully building GCL and Axiom on my Solaris
10.2 x86 system, I decided to go one step further. I was
able to build gcl-2.6.8pre on nexenta OpenSolaris with
your changes for solaris-i386 and the following patch:

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RCS file: /sources/gcl/gcl/o/alloc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.19.4.1.2.17.2.1.4.1.2.2.4.2.4.3
diff -n -u -r1.19.4.1.2.17.2.1.4.1.2.2.4.2.4.3 alloc.c
--- o/alloc.c   31 Aug 2006 19:11:52 -0000
1.19.4.1.2.17.2.1.4.1.2.2.4.2.4.3
+++ o/alloc.c   20 Apr 2007 12:31:38 -0000
@@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@


 #ifndef GNUMALLOC
-static void *
+void *
 memalign(size_t align,size_t size) {
   object x = alloc_simple_string(size);
   x->st.st_self = ALLOC_ALIGNED(alloc_contblock,size,align);

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Without this patch, the gcc compile of 'alloc.c' fails due
to the definition of memalign which conflicts with:

  stdlib.h: extern void *memalign(size_t, size_t);

I am not sure whether this is due to a header change on
this platform or if this is just an issue that is caught
by the version of gcc in use:

  $ gcc --version
  gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 (GNU_Solaris 4.0.3-1nexenta6)

Thanks for your help with this.

BTW, do you think it will be possible soon to but 2.6.8 to
bed as an official release?

Regards,
Bill Page.