bug#20567: guile 2.0.11 - test failures on mips64 big-endian with n32 ABI

2015-05-13 Thread Schaefer, Frank
I've encountered two test failures with guile 2.0.11 on mips64 big-endian, whenever I build with -mabi=n32 (these test failures do not occur with -mabi=64). At least one of them I have resolved with the attached patch. First testcase failure: test-ffi (fixed by my patch). The guile code appar

bug#16361: compile cache confused about file identity

2015-05-13 Thread Zefram
Mark H Weaver wrote: >You could make the same complaint about 'make', 'rsync', or any number >of other programs. Not really. make does use this type of freshness check, but it's used in a specific situation where the freshness issue is immediately obvious and is part of the program's visible prim