Compilation of Guile 3.0.4 on arm64-apple-darwin20 (macOS Big Sur with ARM hardware) fails with:
GEN guile-procedures.texi allocating JIT code buffer failed: Permission denied jit.c:5687: fatal: assertion failed /bin/sh: line 1: 65000 Broken pipe: 13 cat alist.doc array-handle.doc array-map.doc arrays.doc async.doc atomic.doc backtrace.doc boolean.doc bitvectors.doc bytevectors.doc chars.doc control.doc continuations.doc debug.doc deprecated.doc deprecation.doc dynl.doc dynwind.doc eq.doc error.doc eval.doc evalext.doc exceptions.doc expand.doc extensions.doc fdes-finalizers.doc feature.doc filesys.doc fluids.doc foreign.doc fports.doc gc-malloc.doc gc.doc gettext.doc generalized-arrays.doc generalized-vectors.doc goops.doc gsubr.doc guardians.doc hash.doc hashtab.doc hooks.doc i18n.doc init.doc ioext.doc keywords.doc list.doc load.doc macros.doc mallocs.doc memoize.doc modules.doc numbers.doc objprop.doc options.doc pairs.doc ports.doc print.doc procprop.doc procs.doc promises.doc r6rs-ports.doc random.doc rdelim.doc read.doc rw.doc scmsigs.doc script.doc simpos.doc smob.doc sort.doc srcprop.doc srfi-1.doc srfi-4.doc srfi-13.doc srfi-14.doc srfi-60.doc stackchk.doc stacks.doc stime.doc strings.doc strorder.doc strports.doc struct.doc symbols.doc syntax.doc threads.doc throw.doc trees.doc unicode.doc uniform.doc values.doc variable.doc vectors.doc version.doc vports.doc weak-set.doc weak-table.doc weak-vector.doc dynl.doc posix.doc net_db.doc socket.doc regex-posix.doc 65001 Abort trap: 6 | GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ../meta/build-env guild snarf-check-and-output-texi > guile-procedures.texi The backtrace for this issue is: Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00000001932bfcec __pthread_kill + 8 1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001932f0c24 pthread_kill + 292 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x0000000193238864 abort + 104 3 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x00000001009092f8 die + 48 4 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x000000010090922c initialize_jit + 244 5 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001932ecdc8 __pthread_once_handler + 80 6 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x000000019333608c _os_once_callout + 32 7 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001932ecd5c pthread_once + 100 8 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100908dd0 scm_jit_compute_mcode + 732 9 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100962e88 vm_regular_engine + 364 10 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100960c6c scm_call_n + 356 11 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100912f10 scm_primitive_load_path + 820 12 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100963730 vm_regular_engine + 2580 13 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100960c6c scm_call_n + 356 14 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100912f10 scm_primitive_load_path + 820 15 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100903ad4 scm_load_startup_files + 56 16 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100903e64 scm_i_init_guile + 704 17 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x000000010095c374 scm_i_init_thread_for_guile + 156 18 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x000000010095e1b0 with_guile + 32 19 libgc.1.dylib 0x0000000100a10f78 GC_call_with_stack_base + 36 20 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x000000010095c3c0 scm_with_guile + 44 21 libguile-3.0.1.dylib 0x0000000100903b4c scm_boot_guile + 80 22 guile 0x00000001008b3e6c main + 208 23 libdyld.dylib 0x000000019330cf54 start + 4 The latest macOS version implements some new restrictions: the MMU does not allow a physical page to be both writeable and executable. In particular, there is no possibility for executable stack. FX Coudert