Bugzilla Bug 164842

libgeda fails during compile:

g_smob.c:53: error: syntax error before "g_free_attrib_smob"
g_smob.c: In function `g_free_attrib_smob':
g_smob.c:57: error: `scm_sizet' undeclared (first use in this function)
g_smob.c:57: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
g_smob.c:57: error: for each function it appears in.)
g_smob.c:57: error: syntax error before "size"
g_smob.c:60: error: `size' undeclared (first use in this function)
g_smob.c: In function `g_print_attrib_smob':

Don't mind line numbers (I added some).
I solved it adding:

     #define scm_sizet size_t

at the beginning. This definition is from /usr/include/libguile/deprecated.h.
My guile is  1.8.1-r1.
the deprecated.h is included by /usr/include/libguile.h but it is not used as
the name suggests.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.(emerge guile-1.8.1-r1)
2.emerge libgeda-20061020
3.

I have made geda depend on <dev-scheme/guile-1.8 as there seems to be a general
issue with guile-1.8.1. I will look at the solution you propose whew I'm done
with some urgent stuff. Although that won't solve the issue with libgeda, which
geda depends on.

Thanks for your help.

Denis.

Ooops. Above I actually meant that it won't solve the issue with geda which is
the only reason we have libgeda in the tree.

I will try and find some time to commit the latest version of geda/libgeda,
let's hope this will be the proper fix to our guile issues.

Denis.

I just build it successfully against guile-1.8.1-r3.  (I had to modify the
ebuild to remove the <guile1.8 requirement.)  This might be a difference
between -r1 and -r3, but I have also noticed lots of weirdness with recent
guile updates that are fixed by rebuilding everything guile-related after any
guile update.  revdep-rebuild will often find the things that need to be
rebuilt.  guile-1.8 also has various USE flags that should be activated.  I'm
guessing that the deprecated flag is probably important.  See the various bugs
and changelogs on gnucash, which went through similar problems recently. 
Here's my USE flags for guile:

[ebuild   R   ] dev-scheme/guile-1.8.1-r3  USE="deprecated discouraged nls
regex -debug -debug-freelist -debug-malloc -elisp -networking -threads" 0 kB

It's fixed for good, now. Thanks for your bug report.

Note that for guile-1.8.1, having both 'deprecated' and 'discouraged' in your
USE flags invalidates 'discouraged'. See the new version of the ebuild for
guile-1.8.1. This has no impact on geda and libgeda, though, as what we need is
'deprecated'.

Now I will work on a version bump.

Denis.