Bug#488817: clisp - FTBFS: configure: error: C preprocessor "gcc -E" fails sanity check

[Bastian Blank]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:43:54PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> >> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
> >> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> >> configure: error: C preprocessor "gcc -E" fails sanity check
> I cannot reproduce it on i386 nor on amd64, so this should be s390
> specific.

I think I had such a problem lately but I'm not able to find the
corresponding bug.

> >> See `config.log' for more details.
> Is config.log available somewhere?

| configure:5183: checking how to run the C preprocessor
| configure:5299: result: gcc -E
| configure:5328: gcc -E  conftest.c
| In file included from /usr/include/features.h:354,
|                  from /usr/include/limits.h:27,
|                  from /usr/lib/gcc/s390-linux-gnu/4.3.1/include-fixed/limits.h:122,
|                  from /usr/lib/gcc/s390-linux-gnu/4.3.1/include-fixed/syslimits.h:7,
|                  from /usr/lib/gcc/s390-linux-gnu/4.3.1/include-fixed/limits.h:11,
|                  from conftest.c:14:
| /usr/include/gnu/stubs.h:9:27: error: gnu/stubs-64.h: No such file or directory
| configure:5334: $? = 1
| configure: failed program was:
| | /* confdefs.h.  */
| | #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU CLISP"
| | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "clisp"
| | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.44.1 (2008-02-23)"
| | #define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU CLISP 2.44.1 (2008-02-23)"
| | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "http://clisp.cons.org/"
| | #define PACKAGE "clisp"
| | #define VERSION "2.44.1 (2008-02-23)"
| | #ifndef __s390x__
| | #define __s390x__ 1
| | #endif
| | /* end confdefs.h.  */
| | #ifdef __STDC__
| | # include <limits.h>
| | #else
| | # include <assert.h>
| | #endif
| |                    Syntax error

The configure call lacks a --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) argument.

>                                     I'll ask for access to raptor.d.o
> and try to investigate the failure, but I'm not a gcc expert and frankly
> speaking I don't have a lot of time (other Common Lisp bugs come
> before).

Hmm. The Debian Lisp team don't have a DD?

Bastian

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