Compilation of clisp 2.48-3 under Cygwin x86 fails

[Simon Ledergerber <sledergerber at gmx dot net>]

I am trying to compile the clisp source package and have run into a 
compilation error. The detailed steps follow here.

Preparation

- Install a fresh distribution of Cygwin to c:\cygwin with setup-x86.exe.

setup-version: 2.85 (acc. to setup.ini)

Running under Windows 8.1 Pro x64.

uname -a reports: CYGWIN_NT-6.3-WOW64 MyPC 1.7.29(0.272/5/3) 2014-04-07 
13:44
i686 Cygwin

- Install the following binary packages:

clisp (plus source package)

clisp-clx

clisp-gdi

clisp-gtk2

cygport

ffcall

gcc-core

gettext

gettext-devel

libiconv

libiconv2

libintl8

libncurses-devel

libncurses10

libncurses9

libncursesw-devel

libncursesw10

libreadline7

libsigsegv

libsigsegv2

libtool, autoconf, automake, make and other dependecies are installed
automatically in the latest version.

The clisp interpreter can be started up on the command line 
successfully, so all
the (runtime) dependencies are fulfilled.

As an exercise, I am going to try to compile the clisp package right 
from the
source.


Compilation

- The source package of clisp can be found under /usr/src.

- rm -rf ~/build ; mkdir ~/build

- cp -pv /usr/src/clisp* ~/build

- cygport clisp-2.48-3.cygport prep

- cygport clisp-2.48-3.cygport compile

- ./configure is successful, it doesn't report anything missing.

- However make fails with the following error:

gcc -I/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48/build/gllib -ggdb 
-O2 -pipe
-Wimplicit-function-declaration -g
-fdebug-prefix-map=/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/build=/usr/src/debug/clisp-2.48-3 
-fdebug-prefix-map=/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48=/usr/src/debug/clisp-2.48-3
-W -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wpointer-arith -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type 
-Wmissing-declarations -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-format-nonliteral -O2
-fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=4 -DUNICODE -DDYNAMIC_FFI 
-I. -c spvw.c In file included from 
/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48/src/lispbibl.d:1957:0, 
from /home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48/src/spvw.d:23:
/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48/src/unix.d:369:17: error: 
two or
more data types in declaration specifiers #define Handle int /* the type 
of a file descriptor */ ^
/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48/src/unix.d:369:17: error: 
two or
more data types in declaration specifiers #define Handle int /* the type 
of a file descriptor */ ^
/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48/src/unix.d:369:17: error: 
two or more data types in declaration specifiers #define Handle int /* 
the type of a file descriptor */ ^
/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48/src/unix.d:369:17: error: 
two or more data types in declaration specifiers #define Handle int /* 
the type of a file descriptor */ ^
/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48/src/unix.d:369:17: error: 
two or more data types in declaration specifiers #define Handle int /* 
the type of a file descriptor */ ^
/home/Admin/build/clisp-2.48-3/src/clisp-2.48/src/unix.d:369:17: error: 
two or more data types in declaration specifiers #define Handle int /* 
the type of a file descriptor */ ^ Makefile:1378: recipe for target 
'spvw.o' failed make: ***
[spvw.o] Error 1 *** ERROR: make failed

-> All the libraries mentioned in the README and INSTALL files are in 
place and according to /usr/share/doc/clsip/cygwin.README, the build 
should run out of the box.
As I cannot work it out if it is a problem in the CLISP sources or 
Cygwin specific,  I report this problem as a bug to the Cygwin and the 
CLISP  project.

Attachment: cygcheck-report.txt
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Attachment: clisp-2.48-3-compile.log
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