[Gcl-devel] Build fails: loop in ./raw_gcl

[Paul F. Dietz]

After make clean and ./configure --enable-ansi --prefix=/home/dietz, the gcl
build is failing in ./raw_gcl.  It apparently goes into an endless loop.

...

gcc -o raw_gcl  -L.   -lgcl -lm  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libbfd.a 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libiberty.a -lreadline -lncurses -lc -lgclp
cat init_gcl.lsp.in |\
sed -e "s"DATE"Version(`cat ../majvers`.`cat ../minvers`) `date`g" > 
init_gcl.lsp
echo "(setq si::*gcl-version* `cat ../minvers` si::*gcl-major-version* `cat 
../majvers`)" >>init_gcl.lsp
echo "(setq compiler::*cc* \"gcc -c -Wall -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char -fwritable-strings -pipe\")" 
>>init_gcl.lsp
echo "(setq compiler::*ld* \"gcc -o \")" >>init_gcl.lsp
echo "(setq compiler::*ld-libs* \" -lgcl -lm 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libbfd.a 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libiberty.a -lreadline -lncurses -lc -lgclp\")" 
>>init_gcl.lsp
echo "(setq compiler::*opt-three* \"-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer\")" >>init_gcl.lsp
echo "(setq compiler::*opt-two* \"-O\")" >>init_gcl.lsp
echo "(setq compiler::*init-lsp* \"init_gcl.lsp\")" >>init_gcl.lsp
cp ../lsp/auto.lsp ../lsp/auto_new.lsp
[ "readline.o" = "" ] || \
        echo "(AUTOLOAD 'init-readline '|readline|)" >>../lsp/auto_new.lsp
cp init_gcl.lsp foo
echo " (in-package \"USER\")(system:save-system \"saved_gcl\")" >>foo
./raw_gcl ./ -libdir /home/dietz/gcl/gcl/ < foo
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  April 1994  32768 pages

(it loops here)

        Paul