[Gcl-devel] new binutils GCL incompatibility

[Vadim V. Zhytnikov]

I've been trying to resolve recent Maxima/GCL incompatibility
and suddenly discovered other problem with GCL.  GCL no longer
builds on my system.  With gcc 2.95.3 compilation stops with
error message
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gcc -pipe -fwritable-strings  -DVOL=volatile
-I/home/vadim/test/111/o -fsigned-char -c -O  -I../gcl-tk -I../h/
-O4   sfasl.c
In file included from /usr/include/bfd.h:36,
                 from sfaslelf.c:42,
                 from sfasl.c:40:
/usr/include/ansidecl.h:186: warning: `DEFUN' redefined
../h/../h/notcomp.h:60: warning: this is the location of the
previous definition
In file included from /usr/include/bfd.h:103,
                 from sfaslelf.c:42,
                 from sfasl.c:40:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-alt-linux/2.95.3/include/stdbool.h:11:
conflicting types for `bool'
../h/../h/object.h:66: previous declaration of `bool'
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With gcc 2.96 and 3.0.3 build succeed but result is not
operational.
Attempts to load binary files fail
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(cd /home/vadim/tmp/gcl-buildroot/usr/lib/gcl-2.5.0/gcl-tk/demos
; \
echo '(load "../tkl.o")(TK::GET-AUTOLOADS (directory "*.lisp"))'
| ../../unixport/saved_gcl) ; fi
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  Version(2.5.0) Sun May 12 14:02:28 MSD
2002
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter

>
Loading ../tkl.o
Not enough space in bfd_buf 4064 752
make[1]: *** [install1] Error 1
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Fortunately this time I know precisely which part of the system
is responsible.  The problem occurred when I upgraded
binutils 2.11.90.0.31 together with libbfd and libiberty
to binutils 2.11.93.0.2.  When I downgraded binutils
the problem immediately disappeared.

Best wishes,

Vadim

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