[ntp:hackers] Man page generation and maintanence

Brian Utterback brian.utterback at sun.com
Tue May 29 11:13:38 PDT 2007


I tried building the man pages on pogo and I keep getting
an error that says "ambigous output redirect" and then
I get an alarm error that seems to be a general purpose
"this is taking too long" exception.

Any thoughts?

Bruce Korb wrote:
> Hi Harlan,
> 
> Harlan Stenn wrote:
>>> P.S. Harlan-
>>>
>>> -bash-3.00$ history |tail -5
>>>    13  rm -rf *pre1
>>>    14  tar -xzf a*z
>>>    15  cd *pre1
>>>    16  ./configure --prefix=$HOME && gmake
>>>
>>> Yields:
>>>
>>> [[... mucho stuff and then: ...]]
>>>
>>> /usr/local/gnu/include/libguile/smob.h:60: warning: function declaration isn'
>>> t a prototype
>>> [[... more compiler warnings...]]
>> We have guile 1.6.5 installed on pogo - is that sufficient?  Should I
>> reinstall it (which I can do later today)?
> 
> Upon closer inspection, it could be that the  problem is that
> Guile 1.6.x just has sloppy headers.  In Guile, you have to be
> excruciatingly correct with the argument types you pass around,
> but the C code for the library itself is exceedingly sloppy
> WRT types.  Go figure.  I think 1.8 fixed a lot of that though.
> I should retry toning down the strictness for Guile 1.6.
> 
> Thanks - Bruce

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blu

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