Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2013-01-16 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Rob, On Sat 11 Feb 2012 04:39, Rob Browning writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> Rob Browning writes: > >>> So do I understand correctly that in order for this to work, we'll first >>> need an updated libgc in Debian unstable? >> >> Yes. > > Great. If we can get this and the s390 problem fix

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-02-13 Thread Neil Jerram
Rob Browning writes: > Though if it wasn't too difficult to come up with a reasonable patch, > we could ask the Debian libgc maintainer to apply it to the older > version. I don't yet know if there is such a patch. I can imagine a procedure for trying to find it: first git bisect to find the ol

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Neil Jerram writes: > It turns out that no Guile fixes are needed after all. So as far as > Guile on armel is concerned, we only need a new libgc release. OK, that sounds good; by default, I think I'll wait for that. Though if it wasn't too difficult to come up with a reasonable patch, we coul

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Neil Jerram writes: > First of all, thanks for pushing 2.0.5 into Debian so quickly! After a decent bit of work last year, I integrated my Debian development directly into the Guile git tree (including much of the older history). That, the fact that I don't have to split 2.0, and git-dpm/git-dch

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-02-11 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram writes: > On the assumption of using recent libgc git source, I'm still working on > what Guile fixes, if any, are needed on top of that, for armel. I have > a set of fixes that works, but it may not be a minimal set. It turns out that no Guile fixes are needed after all. So as far

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-02-11 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Rob, First of all, thanks for pushing 2.0.5 into Debian so quickly! Rob Browning writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> Rob Browning writes: > >>> So do I understand correctly that in order for this to work, we'll first >>> need an updated libgc in Debian unstable? >> >> Yes. It appears to me

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-02-10 Thread Rob Browning
Neil Jerram writes: > Rob Browning writes: >> So do I understand correctly that in order for this to work, we'll first >> need an updated libgc in Debian unstable? > > Yes. Great. If we can get this and the s390 problem fixed, I'll be able to see about removing 1.8 from Debian testing (which

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-01-08 Thread Neil Jerram
Rob Browning writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> So, just to be clear, the sequence of events for libgc is >> >> - start from 9448012a >> - apply 0001-Debian-7.1-8.patch >> - apply 0001-Tweaks-for-successful-dpkg-buildpackage-using-libgc-.patch > > So do I understand correctly that in order for t

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-01-07 Thread Rob Browning
Neil Jerram writes: > So, just to be clear, the sequence of events for libgc is > > - start from 9448012a > - apply 0001-Debian-7.1-8.patch > - apply 0001-Tweaks-for-successful-dpkg-buildpackage-using-libgc-.patch So do I understand correctly that in order for this to work, we'll first need an u

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-01-07 Thread Rob Browning
Neil Jerram writes: > I'm afraid I can't help in detail with those other ones, as I don't have > those systems. I should note that if anyone does come up with ideas or patches that they'd like to try, I can test them. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-01-06 Thread Rob Browning
Andy Wingo writes: > On Sat 24 Dec 2011 13:50, Neil Jerram writes: > >> Just in case anyone else is looking at this too, I just wanted to >> announce that I'm investigating why the Debian Guile 2.0.3 fails to pass >> 'make check' on ARM > > How's it going? :-) If I recall correctly, there are a

Re: Thread+GC issues on ARM

2012-01-06 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sat 24 Dec 2011 13:50, Neil Jerram writes: > Just in case anyone else is looking at this too, I just wanted to > announce that I'm investigating why the Debian Guile 2.0.3 fails to pass > 'make check' on ARM How's it going? :-) Andy -- http://wingolog.org/

Thread+GC issues on ARM

2011-12-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi there! Just in case anyone else is looking at this too, I just wanted to announce that I'm investigating why the Debian Guile 2.0.3 fails to pass 'make check' on ARM, as can be seen here: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=guile-2.0. Now that there's a Debian package for Guile 2.0