Re: Building zsh-3.0.0 SGI IRIX 5.3

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On Oct 14, 10:02am, Alan Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Building zsh-3.0.0 SGI IRIX 5.3
}
} Probably something silly, but:
} 
}   The configure script supplied is determined to think I'm
} cross-compiling. Even if I persuade it I'm not, by hacking the script,
} the following occurs during the operation of `make':
} 
} ...
}         sed -n -f ./makepro.sed zle_utils.c > zle_utils.pro
}         sed -n -f ./makepro.sed zle_vi.c > zle_vi.pro
}         sed -n -f ./makepro.sed zle_word.c > zle_word.pro
}         nawk -f ./signames.awk /usr/include/sys/signal.h > signames.h
}         gcc -c -I.. -I. -I.  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H (-xansi -rdata_shared -p0
} -g0 -s -O2 -32) ansi2knr.c
} UX:sh (sh): ERROR: sh: Syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
} *** Error code 2 (bu21)
} *** Error code 1 (bu21)
} 
}   Not really sure what's going on here. Should the gcc line have the
} brackets?

Multiple questions arise.

Why is ansi2knr.c being compiled?  Both gcc and the IRIX C compiler are
ansi, so configure should NOT think K&R conversion is needed.

Why are the IRIX 5.3 native C compiler options -xansi -rdata_shared etc.
being passed to gcc?  *Nothing* about configure should have worked with
that combination.

} I've done the `reporter' thing, too. Hope you can help me.

Normally "reporter" would only help debug a problem with zsh itself, not
with the build process, but in this case it actually sheds some light.

What the heck is this stuff doing in your environment?

[...]
} CFLAGS="\'(-xansi -rdata_shared -p0 -g0 -s -O2 -32)\'"
} CPP="/lib/cpp"
[...]
} export CFLAGS
} export CPP
[...]

The parens in your failed build are coming from that CFLAGS environment
variable, which it looks as though you attempted to create as an array
(with parens around the value); but arrays aren't exported in zsh, so
somehow or other you got the parens into the value itself instead.

Or something; I'm gussing wildly here.

Get those out of your environment.  They'll screw up every compile you
attempt, zsh or anything else.  If there's an option to IRIX's `make'
to tell it to NOT import variables from the environment when processing
makefiles, start using it habitually.

unset CFLAGS
unset CPP
rm config.cache
configure
make


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