Re: [GHC] #4252: "perl boot" fails with "error: FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT: requires literal arguments"

2010-08-28 Thread GHC 
#4252: "perl boot" fails with "error: FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT: requires literal
arguments"
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  Reporter:  guest|  Owner:
  Type:  bug  | Status:  closed
  Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:
 Component:  Build System |Version:  6.12.3
Resolution:  fixed|   Keywords:
  Testcase:   |  Blockedby:
Difficulty:   | Os:  Linux 
  Blocking:   |   Architecture:  x86   
   Failure:  Building GHC failed  |  
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Changes (by igloo):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed


Comment:

 Thanks for the report. Fixed by:
 {{{
 Mon Aug 16 15:24:42 BST 2010  Ross Paterson 
   * fix FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT for autoconf 2.66 (fixes #4252)
   Ignore-this: cd784bd32b3b2cc2cc0969ec40f

   Recent versions of AS_LITERAL_IF don't like *'s.  Fix from

 http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/month=20100701
 }}}

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[GHC] #4252: "perl boot" fails with "error: FP_CHECK_ALIGNMENT: requires literal arguments"

2010-08-11 Thread GHC 
#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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