bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-08-20 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke skribis: > > > Only question I have, am I safe to install the resultant binaries > ? > > Yes, of course. > > Though there is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. ;-) No problem, that is the same as windows 7 and that thing is trash. At least with open source it

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Dennis Clarke skribis: > Only question I have, am I safe to install the resultant binaries ? Yes, of course. Though there is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. ;-) Ludo’.

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-08-20 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hi Dennis, > > Dennis Clarke skribis: > > > Well based on what I see here : > > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2011-03/msg00135.html > > > > .. this is a bug that has been around a while and isn't going away > easily. > > Well, more than a bug, it’s a consequence of the u

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Dennis, Dennis Clarke skribis: > Well based on what I see here : > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2011-03/msg00135.html > > .. this is a bug that has been around a while and isn't going away easily. Well, more than a bug, it’s a consequence of the use of a conservative garba

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, and sorry for the delay, Dennis Clarke skribis: > Simply looking at that output fills me with a sense of dread. > How can one trust anything that issues messages like those ? Well, there’s really nothing to be worried about. Most are harmless warnings, some are debugging output from the L

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
Well based on what I see here : http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2011-03/msg00135.html .. this is a bug that has been around a while and isn't going away easily. $ ./check-guile threads.test Testing /usr/local/build/guile-2.0.6_2.6.32-5-amd64_002/meta/guile ... threads.test with

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
$ time -p gmake check GEN public-submodule-commit gmake check-recursive gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/build/guile-2.0.6_2.6.32-5-amd64_002' Making check in lib gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/build/guile-2.0.6_2.6.32-5-amd64_002/lib' gmake check-recursive gmake[3]: En

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-10 Thread David Pirotte
Hi Dennis, > This is not going well at all : > > $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/libgc.so > ... try this: dpkg -l | grep libgc1c2 dpkg -l | grep libgc-dev i am on testing and the answers here are 7.1-8. if these packages are not installed, or if the -dev is not installed, do insta

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:09 am Subject: Re: bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed To: Dennis Clarke Cc: 11...@debbugs.gnu.org > Hi, > > Dennis Clarke skribis: > > >> > Not sure how

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Dennis Clarke skribis: >> > Not sure how to get your libC version >> >> IIRC “dpkg -l libgc” should tell you. > > $ dpkg -l libgc I’m really talking about libgc (aka. Boehm-GC or BDW-GC), not libc. Perhaps “dpkg -S /usr/lib/libgc.so”? Ludo’.

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) Date: Monday, July 9, 2012 12:47 pm Subject: Re: bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed To: Dennis Clarke Cc: 11...@debbugs.gnu.org > > > >> Which GCC optimization options, and which libgc ver

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > Not sure how to get your libC version > > IIRC “dpkg -l libgc” should tell you. $ dpkg -l libgc No packages found matching libgc. hrmmm ... let me dig around in there Dennis

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Dennis Clarke skribis: >> Dennis Clarke skribis: >> >> > FAIL: gc.test: gc: Lexical vars are collectable >> >> [...] >> >> > FAIL: threads.test: mutex-ownership: mutex with owner not retained >> (bug #27450) >> >> These two tests are GC-sensitive, so unfortunately failure rarely >> ind

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hi, > > Dennis Clarke skribis: > > > FAIL: gc.test: gc: Lexical vars are collectable > > [...] > > > FAIL: threads.test: mutex-ownership: mutex with owner not retained > (bug #27450) > > These two tests are GC-sensitive, so unfortunately failure rarely > indicates a problem. IOW, it is sa

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Dennis Clarke skribis: > FAIL: gc.test: gc: Lexical vars are collectable [...] > FAIL: threads.test: mutex-ownership: mutex with owner not retained (bug > #27450) These two tests are GC-sensitive, so unfortunately failure rarely indicates a problem. IOW, it is safe to ignore them. Whic

bug#11885: guile-2.0.6 1 of 1 test failed

2012-07-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
Let me know what may be needed. The report says "failures: 2" and the final message at the bottom says "1 of 1 test failed". I think that the test results are a "fail" also but that is just an opinion. Seems to be a well known bug regardless : FAIL: threads.test: mutex-ownership: