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Dev snapshots not built correctly through bootstrap compiler

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The silex egg compiles fine with Chicken 4.6.5, but upon attempting to use it, the following error occurs:

(use silex) csi: symbol lookup error: /Users/ivan/bin/chicken/lib/chicken/6/silex.so: undefined symbol: C_srfi_2d13_toplevel

silex works with Chicken 4.6.0, so I am guessing this is an issue with the compiler.

Changes and comments

[2011-03-08 12:07:26 UTC] sjamaan changed status from new to closed

[2011-03-08 12:07:26 UTC] sjamaan set resolution to invalid

[2011-03-08 12:07:26 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

This is a known problem if you've built Chicken using an older Chicken; the toplevel C function naming convention has changed, and the new chicken is expecting the function in the new convention, but you've compiled srfi-13 with the old chicken, which generated it using the old convention.

You can either build your Chicken one more time using the *new* Chicken, or use the bootstrap process described in the README.

[2011-03-08 12:09:46 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

See also #467, #463 and #461

[2011-03-08 12:13:32 UTC] iraikov wrote:

Ok, does this mean that the development snapshot script needs to be changed so that it bootstraps the build properly?

[2011-03-08 12:18:51 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

I believe it already does this properly. How did you build your Chicken, and your eggs?

[2011-03-08 12:22:19 UTC] iraikov wrote:

I thought so too. I simply downloaded the development snapshot tarball from the website, and built it with `make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=$HOME/bin/chicken'.

Then $HOME/bin/chicken/bin/chicken-install silex, as usual.

I just double checked to make sure I don't have some old Chicken lying around, but I can indeed confirm that I have removed all old copies of Chicken prior to the steps above.

[2011-03-08 12:39:55 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

hm, that sounds serious. I'll ask Mario to have a look at this.

[2011-03-08 12:39:55 UTC] sjamaan changed status from closed to reopened

[2011-03-08 12:39:55 UTC] sjamaan removed resolution invalid

[2011-03-08 12:39:55 UTC] sjamaan changed summary

[2011-03-09 15:03:50 UTC] mario wrote:

Hi,

Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the problem here.

Here's what I did:

* downloaded http://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2011/02/09/chicken-4.6.5.tar.gz
* built it with {{make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=/home/mario/chicken-4.6.5 install}} (no {{csi}}, {{chicken}}, {{csc}} nor {{chicken-install}} in {{PATH}}; no {{libchicken.*}} in {{/usr/lib}} nor {{/usr/local/lib}}).
* installed silex using {{/home/mario/chicken-4.6.5/bin/chicken-install silex}}
* tried it with {{(use silex)}}:


 $ /home/mario/chicken-4.6.5/bin/csi -n
 
 CHICKEN
 (c)2008-2011 The Chicken Team
 (c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann
 Version 4.6.5 
 linux-unix-gnu-x86 [ manyargs dload ptables ]
 compiled 2011-03-09 on mario (Linux)
 
 #;1> (use silex)
 ; loading /home/mario/chicken-4.6.5/lib/chicken/6/silex.import.so ...
 ; loading /home/mario/chicken-4.6.5/lib/chicken/6/scheme.import.so ...
 ; loading /home/mario/chicken-4.6.5/lib/chicken/6/srfi-13.import.so ...
 ; loading /home/mario/chicken-4.6.5/lib/chicken/6/silex.so ...
 #;2>

No error.

Are those steps correct?

Can anybody else reproduce the problem?

Regarding to the dev-snapshots tarballs, the script which generates the tarballs (release/dev-snapshot.sh, from the chicken-infrastructure repo) performs the bootstrap step and generates the C files using the compiler generated by the bootstrap process. Here's the relevant snippet from the script:

 ### generate the source snapshot
 cd $tmpdir/chicken-core
 touch *.scm
 make PLATFORM=linux CHICKEN=$chicken boot-chicken
 touch *.scm
 make PLATFORM=linux CHICKEN=./chicken-boot spotless all
 $csi -s scripts/makedist.scm PLATFORM=linux CHICKEN=./chicken-boot

[2011-03-09 15:09:00 UTC] mario wrote:

Here's the ldd output for silex.so:

 $ ldd /home/mario/chicken-4.6.5/lib/chicken/6/silex.so 
         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f7a000)
         libchicken.so.6 => /home/mario/chicken-4.6.5/lib/libchicken.so.6 (0xb7bc7000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7b89000)
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7b84000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7a29000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f7b000)

[2011-03-10 02:08:53 UTC] iraikov wrote:

The steps are correct, thanks for trying to reproduce this. I will try it myself again tonight, maybe somehow I clobbered or regenerated the tarball improperly.

Replying to mario: > Hi, > > Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the problem here.

[2011-03-31 11:36:11 UTC] felix removed milestone 4.7.0

[2011-04-11 08:50:00 UTC] iraikov changed status from reopened to closed

[2011-04-11 08:50:00 UTC] iraikov set resolution to worksforme

[2011-04-11 08:50:00 UTC] iraikov wrote:

The 4.6.7 snapshot works for me.