Re: Compiling g-wrap-1.9.15

[Paul Emsley]

On 13/08/2016 00:56, David Pirotte wrote:

> But G-wrap is used by Guile-Gnome and Guile-Clutter, hence my admin effort to
> keep it compiling correctly, until we have a proper GObject Introspection 
> binding
> (I'm working on this but it will take a while, probably a year or so...).
>
> So, I'm assuming you are trying to compile install Guile-Gnome[Clutter], right? 
> If
> not, forget it and use the dynamic FFI.

My program uses guile-1.8 and guile-gtk.  The distros disapprove :-). So 
yes, I am trying to upgrade to guile-gnome.

> > I am getting a compilation error when I compile g-wrap-1.9.15 on RedHat
> > enterprise Linux 6.4 with GCC 4.4.7.  I can't make much sense of it:
>
> As said above, I don't know g-wrap source code, but maybe I can try to help you
> investigate this error, which I agree with you does not make much sense.
>
> So, first, be aware that here, debian testing,  'make distcheck' pass, both 
> using gcc
> 4.9.x and gcc 5.x, otherwise I would not have released it (I did the last 
> release).
> A few quiz, tips to go further, maybe:
>
>         - what Guile version are you using?
>
>                 - 2.0.12 is the latest stable

Yes, that.

>                 - it will _not_ compile using 2.2 (master branch, 2.1.3 [*])
>
>         - if you are using the latest 2.0.12, and it still fails:
>
>                 - double check your config.log and make sure everything is fine
>                 - if configure pass, could you try using gcc 4.9.x or 5.x 
> instead
>                   and see if it solves your problem

So in doing that, I deleted everything, tried again and it worked cleanly.

Thanks for your time.

Paul.