[PPL-devel] [Fwd: Re: warning GMP -fexception message on configure]

[Roberto Bagnara]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PPL-devel] warning GMP -fexception message on configure
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:15:30 -0700
From: Reimundo Heluani <rheluani at gmail.com>
To: Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it>
References: <1255460135.18699.37.camel at campari.homeip.net>	 <4AD596A2.4090800 at cs.unipr.it>

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:15 +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
> Reimundo Heluani wrote:
> > Hi there, trying to compile PPL-0.10.2 I get the message 
> > 
> > 
> > WARNING: CANNOT PROPAGATE EXCEPTIONS BACK FROM GMP:
> > *** MEMORY EXHAUSTION MAY RESULT IN ABRUPT TERMINATION
> > *** This is OK, if you do not plan to use the bounded memory
> > capabilities
> > *** offered by the PPL. Otherwise, if you are using GCC or the Intel;
> > C/C++ compiler, please make sure you use a version of GMP compiled with
> > the -fexceptions compiler option.
> > ...
> > ....
> > 
> > And the end of the configure round.
> > 
> > I just compiled (twice to make sure) GMP 4.3.1 with
> > CPPFLAGS=-fexceptions --enable-cxx
> > 
> > I'm trying to compile this on a CFLS x86_64 system. Is is normal?
> 
> Hi Reimundo,
> 
> from your message I gather you used, for GMP 4.3.1, a configuration
> command of the form
> 
>   ./configure CPPFLAGS=-fexceptions --enable-cxx
> 
> I would use a configuration command of this form instead
> 
>    CPPFLAGS=-fexceptions ./configure --enable-cxx

Indeed the command I have used is of this form. I'm following CLFS and
in that list someone told me that the compilation of GMP goes fine, just
that the test on PPL is failing. Indeed in the final version of the
system I do not get that warning. Just in the cross compiled one.

Cheers,

R.

> 
> Please let us know how it goes.
> All the best,
> 
>     Roberto
> 


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