On Tue 09 Jun 2009 02:52, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:24:48AM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote: >> > GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ../meta/uninstalled-env guile-tools compile -o >> > "language/ecmascript/spec.go" "language/ecmascript/spec.scm" >> > ERROR: Stack overflow >> >> This is still happening for me after pulling the latest master today. > > I have the same problem on Debian Lenny/x86, and am able to work > around it by increasing the stack size resource limit. On my system, > "ulimit -s 16384" (within bash) before running "make" does the trick. > Unfortunately, this is not a portable solution.
It's a strange thing, and I don't see it on my x86-32 laptop running Fedora. But I've heard reports of this. A backtrace at the time of stack overflow would be helpful. Apologies for ongoing badness, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/