Progress report from the "energetic (ha!) curmudgeon"....
I have
- upgraded my computer from Etch to Lenny;
- installed the requisite support packages, except for libtool (libltdl)
and libunistring, which are installed under prefix /home/ttn/local;
- done a "git pull" earlier today;
- successfully bootstrapped w/ "sh -x autogen.sh";
- successfully configured w/:
../GG/configure -C \
--with-threads \
--prefix /tmp/a/b/z \
BDW_GC_CFLAGS='-I/usr/include' BDW_GC_LIBS='-lgc' \
LIBFFI_CFLAGS='-I/usr/include' LIBFFI_LIBS='-lffi' \
LDFLAGS='-L/home/ttn/local/lib';
- and successfully built w/ "make all".
This is much further than previous attempts; i tip my hat to the next
generation! Now comes the hairy part -- "make check" failed with many
messages of the type:
WARNING: (test-suite test-rnrs-records-procedural): imported module (rnrs
records procedural) overrides core binding `record-constructor'
I saw several PASS and UNRESOLVED tests, and finally it failed with:
FAIL: version.test: version reporting works
Digging further, it looks like configure.ac uses build-aux/git-version-gen
to compute the effective version. In that script, there is the fragment:
81 # First see if there is a tarball-only version file.
82 # then try "git describe", then default.
83 if test -f $tarball_version_file
84 then
85 v=`cat $tarball_version_file` || exit 1
86
... [snip]
94
95 if test -n "$v"
96 then
97 : # use $v
In the case where $tarball_version_file does not exist, var ‘v’ will never
have been set, the (inverse) condition checked on line 95. That's fine,
unless ‘v’ had already inherited a value from the environment, in which case
the test on line 95 evaluates to true and the env value is used (incorrectly).
In short, ‘v’ is "possibly used uninitialized". Locally, i have provisionally
applied the following patch and now "make check" succeeds. Woo hoo!
BTW, gnulib folks: Here is a suitable ChangeLog entry:
2010-06-14 Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnuvola.org> (tiny change)
git-version-gen: Init shell var to avoid env var influence.
* build-aux/git-version-gen (v): Init shell var to empty.
thi
_______________________________________________________________________
build-aux/git-version-gen | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/build-aux/git-version-gen b/build-aux/git-version-gen
index 9b821e0..5617eb8 100755
--- a/build-aux/git-version-gen
+++ b/build-aux/git-version-gen
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2010-05-28.15; # UTC
+scriptversion=2010-06-14.19; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ tag_sed_script="${2:-s/x/x/}"
nl='
'
+# Avoid meddling by environment variable of the same name.
+v=
+
# First see if there is a tarball-only version file.
# then try "git describe", then default.
if test -f $tarball_version_file
