Package: guile-1.8 Version: 1.8.5+1-4.1 It appears that threads are disabled in the Debian package of guile-1.8. There are some references to this in /usr/share/doc/guile-1.8/changelog.Debian.gz, but otherwise this does not seem to be documented anywhere. I think it should be documented in a README.Debian, since this is a Debian-specific change to how Guile works by default: /usr/share/doc/guile-1.8-doc/NEWS.gz lines 321-322 say that pthreads are on by default if the platform has them.
Guile itself does not give a very helpful error message when I try to use threads: $ guile guile> (call-with-new-thread (lambda () 1)) Backtrace: In standard input: 1: 0* [call-with-new-thread #<procedure #f ()>] standard input:1:1: In procedure call-with-new-thread in expression (call-with-new-thread (lambda () 1)): standard input:1:1: Function not implemented ABORT: (system-error) guile> It took me quite a while to get from "Function not implemented" to discovering that the Debian package has threads disabled, so a Debian-specific documentation of the change would be very useful. (Of course, another possibility would be to re-enable threads. But, reading only the changelog entries, I don't quite understand why threads are now disabled: the reason for disabling them was "to avoid a thread-related bug" and it "should be a temporary measure" as of September 2006.) -- -=- Rjs -=- [email protected], [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
