Re: Go patch committed: Update Go library

[Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:

>> This patch updates the Go library to the most recent weekly release.  I
>> think the only potential portability issues here are the use of the
>> ipv6_mreq struct.  I'm not entirely sure the new exp/terminal package is
>> portable, but it might be.
>
> There are still problems with EpollEvent definition on Alpha, please
> see [1] for the analysis.
>
> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-07/msg00457.html

Thanks, the resulting epoll.go on Alpha reads as:

epoll.go
package syscall
type EpollEvent struct {
	Events uint32
	Pad [4]byte
	Fd int32
	Pad2 [4]byte
}

However, I am not able to finish compilation of libgo due to unrelated
problem (reported in [1]) with TC[GS]ETS define:

libtool: compile:  /space/uros/gcc-build-go/./gcc/gccgo
-B/space/uros/gcc-build-go/./gcc/
-B/usr/local/alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/
-B/usr/local/alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem
/usr/local/alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem
/usr/local/alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include -O2 -g -mieee -I .
-c -fgo-prefix=libgo_bytes
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/bytes/buffer.go
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/bytes/bytes.go
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/bytes/bytes_decl.go -o bytes/bytes.o
>/dev/null 2>&1
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/exp/terminal/terminal.go:31:78: error:
reference to undefined identifier ‘syscall.TCGETS’
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/exp/terminal/terminal.go:40:81: error:
reference to undefined identifier ‘syscall.TCGETS’
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/exp/terminal/terminal.go:47:81: error:
reference to undefined identifier ‘syscall.TCSETS’
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/exp/terminal/terminal.go:57:78: error:
reference to undefined identifier ‘syscall.TCSETS’
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/exp/terminal/terminal.go:66:81: error:
reference to undefined identifier ‘syscall.TCGETS’
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/exp/terminal/terminal.go:72:81: error:
reference to undefined identifier ‘syscall.TCSETS’
../../../gcc-svn/trunk/libgo/go/exp/terminal/terminal.go:77:68: error:
reference to undefined identifier ‘syscall.TCSETS’
make[4]: *** [exp/terminal.lo] Error 1


[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-10/msg00488.html

Uros.