Greetings,
I am trying to build bigloo 4.2a for the Fedora Linux distribution. I
have hit a couple of problems. First, the configure script doesn't
know about the existence of Java 1.8. The code that sets java_version
defaults to 1.3 if it doesn't understand the version. Versions 1.2
and lower are not only extremely old, but can't even be used for many
common libraries. Wouldn't it be better to default to the highest
supported version instead of 1.3? That way, as new Java versions come
out, bigloo can at least attempt to use the same support as for the
previous version (which, admittedly, may not work ... but it might!).
For now, I have added a clause to make the presence of Java 1.8 set
java_version to 1.7, but please let me know if that is going to cause
problems.
The second problem is that the build fails on an x86_64 machine like this:
mkdir -p /builddir/build/BUILD/bigloo4.2a/lib/bigloo/4.2a/bmem
(if [ "no" = "yes" ]; then \
libbigloogc=/usr/lib64/libbigloogc-4.2a.so.0; \
else \
libbigloogc=-lgc; \
fi; \
gcc -shared lib/init.o lib/alloc.o lib/gchook.o lib/list.o
lib/symbol.o lib/trace.o lib/thread.o \
-L/builddir/build/BUILD/bigloo4.2a/lib/bigloo/4.2a
-lbigloo_s-4.2a \
$libbigloo_gc \
-ldl -lunistring -lresolv -lgmp -lpcre -lgc -lm \
\
-o
/builddir/build/BUILD/bigloo4.2a/lib/bigloo/4.2a/bmem/bmem.so.0)
/builddir/build/BUILD/bigloo4.2a/lib/bigloo/4.2a/libbigloo_s-4.2a.a(cstring.o):
In function `string_to_bstring_len':
/builddir/build/BUILD/bigloo4.2a/runtime/Clib/cstring.c:22: multiple
definition of `string_to_bstring_len'
lib/alloc.o:/builddir/build/BUILD/bigloo4.2a/bde/bmem/lib/alloc.c:754:
first defined here
/builddir/build/BUILD/bigloo4.2a/lib/bigloo/4.2a/libbigloo_s-4.2a.a(cstring.o):
In function `string_to_bstring':
/builddir/build/BUILD/bigloo4.2a/runtime/Clib/cstring.c:63: multiple
definition of `string_to_bstring'
lib/alloc.o:/builddir/build/BUILD/bigloo4.2a/bde/bmem/lib/alloc.c:755:
first defined here
... followed by many more multiple definition complaints. Any advice
you can give on resolving this problem would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
--
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
