[vicare.boot] Illegal instruction

[AndySpider]

platform: openSuse 12.3 vicare version: 0.3d7, master both

After ./configure, make outputs:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/andy/Tmp/vicare-0.3d7/build/scheme'
echo '(define vicare-version "0.3d7")' >ikarus.config.ss
echo '(define vicare-lib-dir "/usr/local/lib/vicare-scheme")' >>ikarus.config.ss
echo '(define scheme-lib-dir "/usr/local/lib/scheme/r6rs")' >>ikarus.config.ss
echo '(define (host-info) "i686-pc-linux-gnu")' >>ikarus.config.ss
echo '(define wordsize 4)' >>ikarus.config.ss
echo '(define platform-endianness (quote little))' >>ikarus.config.ss
echo '(define arguments-validation (positive? 1))' >>ikarus.config.ss
echo '(define bootfile "/usr/local/lib/vicare-scheme/vicare.boot")' >>ikarus.config.ss
VICARE_SRC_DIR=../../scheme                     \
  VICARE_BUILD_DIR=.                            \
  VICARE_LIBRARY_PATH=.:../../scheme:../../scheme/../lib:./../lib               \
   ../src/vicare -b ../../scheme/vicare.boot.4.prebuilt \
   --r6rs-script ../../scheme/makefile.sps
make[2]: *** [vicare.boot] Illegal instruction
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/andy/Tmp/vicare-0.3d7/build/scheme'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andy/Tmp/vicare-0.3d7/build'

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make again outputs:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/andy/Tmp/vicare-0.3d7/build/scheme'
VICARE_SRC_DIR=../../scheme                     \
  VICARE_BUILD_DIR=.                            \
  VICARE_LIBRARY_PATH=.:../../scheme:../../scheme/../lib:./../lib               \
   ../src/vicare -b ../../scheme/vicare.boot.4.prebuilt \
   --r6rs-script ../../scheme/makefile.sps
make[2]: *** [vicare.boot] Segmentation fault
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/andy/Tmp/vicare-0.3d7/build/scheme'

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[marcomaggi]

Thanks for the report. I will look into it this week.

[marcomaggi]

Sorry for the delay. I have screwed up between tag before-rotating-boot-image-2013-09-19 and tag after-rotating-boot-image-2013-09-19; release 0.3d4 should work on 32-bit platforms. I have to replay all the commits, and it will take some time to find time to do everything needed.

[AndySpider]

Thanks for your reply. Forgot to mention that my opensuse is 64bit, and now I found that I can't compile it on my 64bit ubuntu 12.04 either. Seems it's the common problem related to 64bits platform? I don't have a 32bit version at hand, but I'll try it later.

[marcomaggi]

I am currently developing it on a Slackware Linux 64-bit with no problems. From the log you posted it seems Automake's config.guess script detected a i686-pc-linux-gnu which is weird for a 64-bit Linux; on my system I get x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; also the wordsize is determined as AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(void *) by configure and it results in 4 on your system. Do you have a 64-bit computer with a 32-bit Linux installed?

[AndySpider]

Yeah, my desktop is 64-bit with a 32-bit Opensuse installed, which prompt the above errors when compiling.

Now I have successfully installed it on my laptop which is a Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. But during the compiling, it's very cpu and memory consuming (100% which is obviously abnormal!) . it seems like there is sth wrong with the doc stuff regarding the output:

  make[1]: Entering directory `/home/andy/Repos/vicare/build/doc'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
        am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../doc && \
        rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
        if (/bin/bash /home/andy/Repos/vicare/autotools/missing --run makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
          for f in ../../doc/vicare-libs.info ../../doc/vicare-libs.info-[0-9] ../../doc/vicare-libs.info-[0-9][0-9] ../../doc/vicare-libs.i[0-9] ../../doc/vicare-libs.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
            if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
          done; \
        else :; fi && \
        cd "$am__cwd"; \
        if /bin/bash /home/andy/Repos/vicare/autotools/missing --run makeinfo   -I ../../doc \
         -o ../../doc/vicare-libs.info ../../doc/vicare-libs.texi; \
        then \
          rc=0; \
          CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../doc; \
        else \
          rc=$?; \
          CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../doc && \
          $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./../../doc/vicare-libs.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
        fi; \
        rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
../../doc/vicare-libs.texi:7: @include `version-libs.texi': No such file or directory.
../../doc/vicare-libs.texi:157: warning: undefined flag: VERSION.
../../doc/vicare-libs.texi:195: warning: undefined flag: VERSION.
makeinfo: Removing output file `../../doc/vicare-libs.info' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
make[1]: *** [../../doc/vicare-libs.info] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andy/Repos/vicare/build/doc'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Despite the error, I then run make install, and vicare is installed and works.

[marcomaggi]

I have checked the tarball for release 0.3d7, and all the required files version-*.texi are there. If you are building from a repository checkout, as the README file says, you must configure with:

$ configure --enable-maintainer-mode ...

[AndySpider]

It works, thanks! Back to the original problem, how to compile it on my 32bit Opensuse?

[marcomaggi]

Before the end of the year I plan to upgrade my Slackware 64-bit installation, and also install the 32-bit packages needed to create a 32-bit "subsystem". This way I should be able to compile for both 32-bit and 64-bit on my faster computer. After that I will fix the 32-bit boot image in the repository. Unless everything goes incredibly smooth, it will take some days.

[marcomaggi]

I have pushed a branch https://github.com/marcomaggi/vicare/tree/support-for-32-bit.marcomaggi-2013-12-27 which should fix the problem. Can you test it before I merge it into the devel branch?

[AndySpider]

Good job, it works!

[marcomaggi]

Thank you for trying it!