'make' problems with bigloo-lib-0.19

[Stephen D. Dyck]

I am trying to compile bigloo-lib-0.19 for bigloo2.5c.  (I believe this is the 'final' version of bigloo2.5c since I downloaded and installed it today!)  When configuring the library, I have to tell it where to find the bigloo executable, i.e. I run it with the command $bigloo_executable=<my directory>/bin/bigloo ./configure.  This seems to complete without problems.  When I run 'make' for the next step, however, it runs for a while, and then I get the error message:

    Global variable redefinition -- every
    gcc <various options> os.c
    os.c: In function 'BGL_unsetenvz00zzosz00':
    os.c:1147: void value not ignored as it ought to be
    make[2]: *** [os.o] error1
    make[2]: leaving directory <blah blah>/common

and the process aborts.  Can someone help?
Many thanks, sdyck

[Vladimir V. Tsichevski]

Thank you for the report. The unsetenv doesn't return value, so the
binding should be defined in the os.defs as follows:

(define-export (unsetenv name::string)
  (pragma::bool "unsetenv($1)" name)
  #unspecified
  )

BTW on which platform do you run Bigloo?

[Stephen D. Dyck]

Many thanks.  Your suggestion allows the compiler to get past the original problem.  However, the make process now aborts signalling a long series of new problems which all look roughly like this:

  libbldap.a(ldap.o): In function 'BGL_ldapzd2<longname>':
  <directory>/ldap/ldap.c:<nmbr>: undefined reference to 'ldap_set_option' (or 'ldap_get_option', or 'ldap_explode_dn', or 'ldap_flush_cache', etc., etc.).

As regards the platform, I'm running Mandrake Linux 7.0 on a 700 Mhz Pentium III. This version of linux uses gcc version 2.95.2.  Maybe I just need a more up-to-date Linux?

[Vladimir V. Tsichevski]

> Many thanks. Your suggestion allows the compiler to get past the
> original problem. However, the make process now aborts signalling a
> long series of new problems which all look roughly like this:
>
> libbldap.a(ldap.o): In function 'BGL_ldapzd2<longname>':
> <directory>/ldap/ldap.c:<nmbr>: undefined reference to 'ldap_set_option' (or 'ldap_get_option', or 'ldap_explode_dn', or 'ldap_flush_cache', etc., etc.).
>

It seems, you linked with the wrong ldap library.

Please, send me the the config.log file created by configure.
Which ldap client version do you use?

Meanwhile, as a workaround, if you do not need ldap support in bigloo-lib,
reconfigure it as

./configure --with-ldap=no

> As regards the platform, I'm running Mandrake Linux 7.0 on a 700 Mhz
> Pentium III. This version of linux uses gcc version 2.95.2. Maybe I
> just need a more up-to-date Linux?

No, it it very unlikely