[racket-dev] build failed on ubuntu 13.04

From: Jon Rafkind (rafkind at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 7 23:17:20 EST 2012

Racket failed to build for the ppa on ubuntu 13.04 (raring). I'm not exactly sure what the issue is but the details are that its using gcc-4.7_4.7.2-5ubuntu5.

Full build log: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/122334588/buildlog_ubuntu-raring-i386.racket_5.3-20121107~raring_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

The error is

make[5]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/racket-5.3/build/racket/gc2'
 gcc -I./.. -I/build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/../include -g -pthread    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64   -Wall  -I./.. -c /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/gc2.c -o gc2.o
 In file included from /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/gc2.c:15:0:
 /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/newgc.c: In function 'GC_message_objects_size':
 /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/newgc.c:1594:5: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'uintptr_t' [-Wformat]
 In file included from /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/newgc.c:2438:0,
                  from /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/gc2.c:15:
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c: At top level:
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c:63:35: warning: 'struct siginfo' declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c:63:35: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want [enabled by default]
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c: In function 'fault_handler':
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c:65:15: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c:67:13: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c:71:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c:87:46: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c:87:58: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
                  /build/buildd/racket-5.3/src/racket/gc2/sighand.c:103:11: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

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