Hi Brian,
Thank you for the explanation. I'll quiet down that warning stuff for the
shipped autogen. I was wanting to make the code as excruciatingly
clean as I could.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave Nadler wrote:
>
>> - decipher the build complaint below and suggest what I've screwed up, or
>
> The problem is that CFLAGS contains -Werror which turns any minor
> warning into a fatal error that stops the build.
> The only portable way
> to use uint32_t with printf is by using the corresponding format
> specifier define from inttypes.h, i.e.
>
> fprintf( stderr, "Cannot malloc %"PRIu32" bytes\n", colCt + 1 );
>
> This of course has its own set of portability issues since inttypes.h
> isn't available everywhere. Perhaps a better option would be to use
> size_t and %zu.
Or apply a cast to all integer type arguments? Holy moly, what a lot
of pain just to print a number....
Grumble, grumble. Thank you. :)
> These is good example of why it's a bad idea to ship software with
> -Werror enabled by default. It might be helpful for the developer of
> the package to have it enabled but it is certainly unhelpful to the end
> user who is just trying to use the software. For this reason it's
> traditional to have a --{en,dis}able-werror configure option that allows
> for the end-user to override the package, however it seems that autogen
> does not share this philosophy but instead forces -Werror. Ouch.
Naw, the developer just didn't fully appreciate all the twisty little issues
one might bump into. Please note: this isn't my day job. One company
did send me a copy of VM Ware as a token of appreciation. But this
doesn't put any food on my table.
> This
> is a new development, so I'd say one workaround would be to simply use
> an older version. 5.9.5 should be fine. You could also edit
> configure.in and regenerate configure.
I'm out of town for the next week. I'll change the warning thing and
repackage a 5.9.7 in early December. If there are any more issues,
please email 'em. :)
> The problem with getting autogen working with Cygwin lies in libguile.
> The binary version provided by the distro was built with an incompatible
> version of gcc and so autogen built against it segfaults at startup.
> It's been reported multiple times but the guile maintainer is still in
> denial that a problem exists. So, you need to build guile yourself from
> source.
On UNIX platforms, that's been pretty easy, since they moved from 1.4 to 1.6.
They're on 1.8 now.
Again, thank you, Brian, for your feedback. -Werror will be gone next
time. Sorry.
Regards, Bruce
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