[Gcl-devel] Re: Building gcl from cvs?

[Raymond Toy]

Camm Maguire wrote:
> GCL has certain build dependencies, a working C compiler and libc
> development header environment being among them.  Conventionally, GCL
> also requires binutils-dev and libgmp3-dev at build time, but there
> are local snapshots of these libraries to make do in a pinch.  The GMP
> local build will turn on automatically if no installed GMP is found.
> The binutils local build must still be invoked by hand thus:
>
> --disable-statsysbfd --enable-locbfd

Ah, this really helps a lot on solaris/sparc for gcl2.6.8pre. Configure 
finishes, and it builds just about everything.  The only issue is that I 
don't have a working pdflatex, so the build never finishes making 
saved_gcl.  If I comment out the parts about building dwdoc.pdf, 
everything finishes and saved_ansi_gcl is created.

Unfortunately, cvs gcl still doesn't configure correctly.  First, 
configure near line 4942 has this:

     if ! test -x `which ldd` ; then

I think it really should be:

     if test ! -x `which ldd` ; then

Configure still fails because it can't determine the C stack.  Can I set 
heap_ceiling = 0 for solaris/sparc is it is for solaris-i386?  If I do 
that, configure finishes.  I'm doing the build right now.  It will take 
quite a while before I know the outcome....

Ray