id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
3124	guile-1.8.7 build failure related to recent gcc versions	Dominic Jones	Randy McMurchy	"guile-1.8.7 failed to build following the blfs development version instructions and gave the following error:

ERROR: unknown doc attribute: (location (string .alist.c) (int . 40) (hash .has))

This error has been diagnosed in another context; see http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/guile.html for information about the issue and resolution.  I couldn't get the patch embedded in the page to work (in hindsight, it appears to assume a different directory), but was able to manually copy the change the patch would have made (adding the -P flag) into the appropriate file (guile-1.8.7/libguile/guile-snarf-docs.in) and it fixed the problem.

Based on the discussion in the referenced page, it appears that recent versions of gcc (4.4.2 and later; I'm using 4.5.0 per lfs-dev) changed their behavior in a way that broke the guile build."	defect	closed	normal		BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed