[M3devel] Confusing, but non-critical bug...

[Tony Hosking]

Definitely something broken in the build.

On 26 Apr 2009, at 15:28, Mika Nystrom wrote:

>
> So I have a library, built against m3tk.  Everything compiles, but
> when cm3 tries to "ar" the library:
>
>
> new "TypeTranslator.io" -> archiving libsstubgen.a
>
> Fatal Error: incomplete library
>
> missing compiled interface "M3AST_all.io" imported by:  M3AST_SM_F.i3
>   M3AST_PG.m3  M3AST_SM.m3  TypeNames.m3  AstToVal.m3  AstToType.m3
>   M3ASTScopeNames.m3
> M3AST_PG_M.i3: missing object types:  _t1ee311ce
> imported by:  M3AST_PG.m3
> M3AST_all.i3: missing object types:  _t8eb32ef8  _t9ffde2a4   
> _ta2581bcc
>   _t52bfa811  _t249b6ddc  _t172a75ba  _t774a90ea  _tc92a7e8c   
> _t1d23b703
>   _t2812849  _t1796950e  _te47b91c  _tccbf0da  _tb53c334a  _tf38721e4
>   _tbbcfc2cb  _teec6ca97
> imported by:  M3AST_PG.m3  AstToType.m3  AstToVal.m3  M3AST_SM.m3
>   M3AST_SM_F.i3
> missing compiled interface "M3AST_PG_M.io" imported by:  M3AST_PG.m3
>
> seconds  #times  operation
>    0.06      22  inhaling library link info
>    0.01      27  checking old link info
>    0.21     896  merging new link info
>    0.05       4  garbage collection
> ---------------------------------------------------
>    0.34          TOTAL
>
> rm m3make.args
> cd ../src
>
> So I add "IMPORT M3AST_all;" to one of my interfaces (it's not used
> there at all):
>
> (1943)trs80:~/t-cm3/mscheme/sstubgen/src>cm3 -x
> --- building in ../FreeBSD4 ---
>
> ignoring override("sstubgen", "/home/mika/t-cm3/mscheme")
>
> new source -> compiling TypeTranslator.i3
> "../src/TypeTranslator.i3", line 12: warning: not used (M3AST_all)
> 1 warning encountered
> new source -> compiling TypeTranslator.m3
> "../src/TypeTranslator.m3", line 353: warning: not used (Add)
> 1 warning encountered
> new opaque info -> recompiling TypeTranslator.m3
> "../src/TypeTranslator.m3", line 353: warning: not used (Add)
> 1 warning encountered
> new "TypeTranslator.io" -> archiving libsstubgen.a
> (1944)trs80:~/t-cm3/mscheme/sstubgen/src>
>
> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....... is anyone interested in looking at this?
> As I said, it's non-critical (I can get things working, clearly,
> even with the bug present), but it's very confusing.  I have to
> import an interface I'm not using...why?  Where to begin looking?
>
>     Mika