#4252: "perl boot" fails with "error: FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT: requires literal
arguments"
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: Build System
Version: 6.12.3 | Keywords:
Testcase: | Blockedby:
Os: Linux | Blocking:
Architecture: x86 | Failure: Building GHC failed
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When executing 'perl boot' as indicated in the build guide it fails with
the following output:
{{{
Creating libraries/array/ghc.mk
...
Creating libraries/xhtml/GNUmakefile
Booting .
configure.ac:715: error: FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT: requires literal arguments
aclocal.m4:143: FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT is expanded from...
configure.ac:715: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
configure.ac:715: error: FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT: requires literal arguments
aclocal.m4:143: FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT is expanded from...
configure.ac:715: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
Running autoreconf failed with exitcode 256 on dir . at boot line 50.
}}}
Searching the internet I could only find build failures by merehap:
http://markmail.org/message/vqyub65wxjykbup4
and a similar error in MacPorts
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25520
Line 715 of configure.ac reads:
{{{ FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT(void *) }}}
The problem seems to be with autoconf. AS_LITERAL_IF macro (used by
FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT) seems to have changed it's behaviour in version 2.66
to be more conservative with regard to shell indirection.
I don't have any experience with autoconf, but it seems that the problem
could be that the asterisk is interpreted as a shell indirection.
I have tried with versions 2.66 and 2.67 of autoconf.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4252>
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