Re: guile-2.0.0 fails to build without threads

2011-05-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Marco Maggi writes: > Someone left ACTION-IF-FALSE empty This is fine, isn't it? > and also left the test > without "checking" message in this chunk of "configure.ac": Agree that that is unhelpful. > maybe the problem is that GCC 4.6.0 with -O3 optimises the > program in such a way that

Re: guile-2.0.0 fails to build without threads

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > Fixed in git, for the time being. It's an arms race with the compiler, > and clearly code clarity is losing: FWIW, I think I looked a while back at the possibility of detecting stack direction at Guile runtime instead - where it is in principle trivial - and then we'd no lo

Re: Parts of the test-suite hanging forever

2011-06-23 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > Things do appear to work correctly with libgc 7.2alpha5 (or CVS). > Perhaps given that master has moved away from pthread redirection, we > should simply require libgc 7.2 for Guile 2.2. Yes, absolutely. Speaking as a user :-), I would not mind at all being told "you must u

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