strange stuff

[Dirk Herrmann]

Hello together,

* when configuring guile, I get the message

  [...]
  loading cache /dev/null
  ./configure: .: /dev/null: not a regular file
  [...]

and it seems that subsequent calls to configure do not use any cached
information.  Before the switch to autoconf 2.5, configuring went a lot
faster because many results were taken from the cache.  In any case, the
warning that /dev/null is not a regular file might confuse people and it
would be nice if that could be switched off.

* when building, I get the following messages:

  [...]
  make[1]: Entering directory 
`/home/dirk/software/src/guile/development/libltdl'
  /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -g -O2 
-c ltdl.c
  ./libtool: test: =: unary operator expected
  [...]
  numbers.c:4203: warning: `SIZE_MAX' redefined
  /usr/include/stdint.h:270: warning: this is the location of the previous 
definition
  numbers.c:4205: warning: `PTRDIFF_MIN' redefined
  /usr/include/stdint.h:258: warning: this is the location of the previous 
definition
  numbers.c:4206: warning: `PTRDIFF_MAX' redefined
  /usr/include/stdint.h:259: warning: this is the location of the previous 
definition
  [...]
  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I./.. -I../libltdl -g -Wall -W -DSCM_DEBUG=1 
-Wp,-MD,. deps/stime.pp -c stime.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o stime.o
  stime.c:134: warning: missing initializer
  stime.c:134: warning: (near initialization for `scm_your_base.millitm')
  [...]

Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann