lang/guile fails to build on amd64 / 9-CURRENT

[Scot Hetzel]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Jason Garrett <kingedgar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> CC'ing port maintainer
>>
>> Here is the commit for timeb.h being deprecated and adding the #warning
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/svn-src-all@freebsd.org/msg20965.html
>>
>> Solutions are to either use a replacement for timeb.h (unknown by me
>> at this point), quit using timeb.h (not sure how guile depends on
>> this), or omit the -Werror from
>> /usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.6/Makefile and
>> /usr/ports/lang/guile-1.8.6/libguile/Makefile.
>>
>> Maintainer, please direct on how to proceed. As it sits without
>> modification the port is broken, even with -Wno-error set in
>> /etc/make.conf.
>>
>
> I'm not sure about that.  The no-error stuff I believe is a CURRENT thing,
> at least when running betas and stuff you'll run into the warnings as errors
> thing.  The port builds fine on other branches and I suspect would continue
> to build on CURRENT if you got rid of whatever controlling the compile
> setting.  Nevertheless, it seems the port should be fixed to use sys/time.h
> and gettimeofday(2) instead.  Just the way it looks to me, I'm no expert
> here.
>
The port only uses sys/timeb.h in libguile/stime.c, and only to
include the header when HAVE_SYS_TIMEB_H is defined, removing
sys/timeb.h from the header include check in configure.in allows the
port to build on a recent CURRENT.

Scot