Re: [julia-users] Build problem on CentOS 6.4

[Andreas Noack]

This issue has been reported a couple of times over the last couple of days
and there are some explanations in the those issues so please have a look
at them, but in short, yes it is too old.

2015-02-05 19:23 GMT-05:00 Peter Simon <psimon0...@gmail.com>:

> Trying to build Julia 0.4 master on CentOS 6.4 with gcc 4.4.7.  The
> compiler doesn't seem to like one of the lines in gc.c:
>
> ...
>     CC src/disasm.o
>     CC src/support/int2str.o
>     CC src/support/libsupportinit.o
>     CC src/debuginfo.o
>     CC src/support/arraylist.o
>     CC src/support/strtod.o
>     LINK src/support/libsupport.a
>     CC src/interpreter.o
>     CC src/alloc.o
>     CC src/dlload.o
>     CC src/sys.o
>     CC src/init.o
>     CC src/task.o
>     CC src/array.o
>     CC src/dump.o
>     CC src/toplevel.o
>     CC src/jl_uv.o
>     CC src/jlapi.o
>     CC src/profile.o
>     CC src/llvm-simdloop.o
>     CC src/gc.o
> gc.c:40: error: flexible array member in otherwise empty struct
> make[2]: *** [gc.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[1]: *** [julia-release] Error 2
>
> line 40 of gc.c is highlighted below:
>
> typedef struct {
>     union {
>         uintptr_t header;
>         struct {
>             uintptr_t gc_bits:2;
>             uintptr_t pooled:1;
>         };
>     };
>     char data[];
> } buff_t;
>
> Does this mean the compiler is too old?  The README says gcc >= 4.4 should
> work.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
>