Hi,

Expiring this bug due to inactivity.  If you have a problem compiling
Guile 2.0.11, stable-2.0, the upcoming 2.0.12, or the beta 2.1.3, let us
know in new reports.  Thanks!

Andy

On Tue 04 Jun 2013 15:43, a...@euve8129.vserver.de writes:

> Hi Ludovic,
>
> thanks for the reply.
> The compilation did not succeed. There're several reasons behind it.
> One thing is that the pthread_np.h should be avoided on OpenBSD
> alltogether, since this it implements just a short fraction of functions.
> So if functions from pthread_np.h should be used, then they must be tested
> one by one and not assuming that if the file is present so are the
> functions. I simply renamed the file "pthread_np.h" to
> "pthread_np.h.original" and ran configure and this time configure
> succeeded without any complaint.
>
> The other thing with OpenBSD is, that the stock-installation of the
> Boehm-GC package is more or less broken. I compiled my own version of this
> library and then I could compile guile successfully, but the linker did
> complain about some pthread_np* functions.
> Using the stock installation/package then there's a conflict with some
> defines being set (notably: GC_REDIRECT_TO_LOCAL). The stock installation
> has no such file (gc_local_alloc.h) so the defines inside must be set
> accordingly.
>
> Currently I'm very busy to follow up this problem but I'm very willing to
> provide more information on this topic, since I keen on having a current
> version of Guile running  under OpenBSD.
>
> Sebastian
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>>
>> a...@euve8129.vserver.de skribis:
>>
>>> Compiling guile 2.0.9 under OpenBSD 5.2 x86
>>
>> Did compilation eventually succeed?  Did you run ‘make check’?
>>
>>> checking pthread.h usability... yes
>>> checking pthread.h presence... yes
>>> checking for pthread.h... yes
>>> checking pthread_np.h usability... no
>>> checking pthread_np.h presence... yes
>>> configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h: present but cannot be compiled
>>> configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h:     check for missing prerequisite
>>> headers?
>>> configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h: see the Autoconf documentation
>>> configure: WARNING: pthread_np.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be
>>> Compiled"
>>
>> Could you send the output of:
>>
>>   grep pthread_np config.log
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>>



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