Hi Andy, Neil,
I was originally using 1.8.5 because 1.8.7 is currently in the testing
rather than stable category in gentoo's portage package tree.
I tried building 1.8.7 on the same debian installation but, had the
same problem as before. The same test fails.
Using the 1.8.7-r2 ebuild in gentoo, the same test passes. The gentoo
guile-1.8.7-r2 ebuild includes a patch called guile-1.8.7-
fix_tests.patch which I assume is responsible. This patch modifies the
a makefile in the test suite so, hopefully this fixes a bug in
building or running the tests rather than covering up a genuine
problem. The patch references gentoo bug 295093 which might provide
more information.
In the absence of problems, I am going to assume that the author of
this patch knew what he/she was doing and that all is well.
Thanks,
Nick
On 7 Dec 2010, at 09:34, Andy Wingo wrote:
Hi Nick,
On Sat 04 Dec 2010 23:12, Nick Cripps <[email protected]> writes:
(sudo apt-get install gcc make libtool libgmp3-dev)
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf guile-1.8.5.tar.gz
cd guile-1.8.5
./configure && make && make check
Could you try the same thing on guile 1.8.7, the latest stable
release?
I don't know of any test failures in that release.
Andy
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