I tried reverting Aidan's commit "01970033faa6", and as expected the build succeeds. bdb4 build support is pretty fragile if it doesn't even work on an unpatched Gentoo system. steve＠uwakimon /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs $ hg diff -r 4400 -r 4401 diff -r 555e21a66d51 -r 01970033faa6 ChangeLog --- a/ChangeLog Thu Jan 17 10:18:05 2008 +0100 +++ b/ChangeLog Thu Jan 17 11:52:45 2008 +0100 ＠＠ -1,3 +1,17 ＠＠ 2008-01-01 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephe +2008-01-17 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; + + * configure.ac: + If using a version of the gdbm library that sticks dbm_open in + libgdbm_compat.so, also link to that library. + Correct a thinko with DBM version 4 checks. Both from Hans de + Graaff, in + http://mid.gmane.org/20050812092756.6850.qmail＠graaff.xs4all.nl + and + http://mid.gmane.org/pan.2007.06.24.10.10.57＠gentoo.org; thank you + Hans! + * configure: + Regenerate. + Build chokes with /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c:432: warning: passing arg 3 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c:432: warning: passing arg 4 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c:473: warning: passing arg 3 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c:473: warning: passing arg 4 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c:496: warning: passing arg 3 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c:542: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c:542: warning: passing arg 3 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c:544: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/database.c:544: warning: passing arg 3 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type uname -a: Linux uwakimon 2.6.20.7 #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 24 21:32:05 JST 2007 x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 265 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux ../configure '--with-mule' '--with-widgets=athena' '--with-dialogs=athena' '--with-athena=3d' '--with-bignum=gmp' '--with-debug' '--with-error-checking=none' '--with-xft=emacs,tabs,gauges,menubars' '--with-union-type' '--with-system-packages=/usr/local/lib/xemacs' XEmacs 21.5-b28 "fuki" (+CVS-20071205) configured for `x86_64-unknown-linux'. Compilation Environment and Installation Defaults: Source code location: /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs Installation prefix: /usr/local Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Not using any machine description file Compiler version: gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r2, ssp-3.4.6-1.0, pie-8.7.9) - GCC specs file: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/specs - Compiler command: gcc -Wall -Wno-switch -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wpacked -Wunused-parameter -g libc version: 2.7 Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. - Using fontconfig to manage fonts. - Compiling in support for Xft antialiased fonts (EXPERIMENTAL). Compiling in support for the Athena widget set: - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw3d - Athena library to link: Xaw3d Using Lucid menubars. - Using Xft to render antialiased fonts in menubars. WARNING: This feature will be replaced with a face. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Using Athena native widgets. - Using Xft to render antialiased fonts in tab controls. WARNING: This feature will be replaced with a face. - Using Xft to render antialiased fonts in progress bars. WARNING: This feature will be replaced with a face. WARNING: This feature not yet implemented; setting ignored. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Compiling in support for ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Compiling in support for LDAP. Compiling in support for PostgreSQL. - Using PostgreSQL header file: libpq-fe.h - Using PostgreSQL V7 bindings. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Mail: Compiling in support for "file" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Compiling in support for more number types using the GNU MP library. Using the union type for Lisp_Objects. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: This tends to trigger compiler bugs, especially when WARNING: combined with MULE and ERROR_CHECKING. Crashes have WARNING: been seen with various versions of GCC (up to about 2.95), WARNING: and recently with Visual C++ as well (mid-2003). WARNING: More recent versions may be safer, or not. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- Using the new GC mark algorithms (KKCC). WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: The new algorithms are experimental. They are enabled by WARNING: default for this release. Use `--disable-kkcc' to WARNING: turn it off. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- Using the new portable dumper. Dumping into executable. Compiling in support for extra debugging code. \s-+.+\)*\|^Note:\|Installing\|[Ff]ile(s) copied\|\s-+tests\s-+\|^[A-Z] [^ ]+$\|^Wrong number of arguments:\|^ \*\* \|^\(FAIL\|SKIP\):" Using configure-time autodetection only. checking for preferred warning flags for XEMACS_CC... -Wall -Wno-switch -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wpacked -Wunused-parameter checking for preferred warning flags for CC... -Wall -Wno-switch -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wpacked -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes checking for dlerror... yes checking for _dlerror... no checking for ldap_result2error... yes checking for strerror in -lintl... no checking for perror... yes checking for strerror... yes Compilation Environment and Installation Defaults: cd ./lib-src && make all cd ./lwlib && make all cd ./src && make all /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/bytecode.c:290: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/bytecode.c:290: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/bytecode.c:291: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/bytecode.c:291: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/data.c:2474: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/data.c:2474: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/data.c:2518: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type /playpen/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/data.c:2518: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type /usr/include/db1/db.h:77: error: conflicting types for 'DBT' /usr/include/db.h:136: error: previous declaration of 'DBT' was here /usr/include/db1/db.h:92: error: redeclaration of enumerator `DB_BTREE' /usr/include/db.h:1289: error: previous definition of 'DB_BTREE' was here /usr/include/db1/db.h:92: error: redeclaration of enumerator `DB_HASH' /usr/include/db.h:1290: error: previous definition of 'DB_HASH' was here /usr/include/db1/db.h:92: error: redeclaration of enumerator `DB_RECNO' /usr/include/db.h:1291: error: previous definition of 'DB_RECNO' was here /usr/include/db1/db.h:92: error: conflicting types for 'DBTYPE' /usr/include/db.h:1294: error: previous declaration of 'DBTYPE' was here /usr/include/db1/db.h:118: error: redefinition of `struct __db' _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta