popen test hangs (was GNU Guile 1.8.7 released)

2009-07-06 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ludovic � wrote: > We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.7. Hi, it seems that the popen test hangs: ;;; (foo-pws) Running exceptions.test Running filesys.test Running format.test Running fractions.test Running ftw.test Running gc.test Run

Re: array handles and non-local exits

2009-07-06 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Sun 05 Jul 2009 12:14, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> I'm hacking on this code right now, and have come to think that >> scm_array_handle_release is superfluous. It shouldn't protect against >> concurrent modification of the data, as that should be done w

Re: r6rs libraries, round two

2009-07-06 Thread Julian Graham
Hi Andy, > Back to your question though, what did you think about my symlink > solution[1]? > > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/8585 It's fine, although any length suffix of a version specifier can be omitted in the case of a match -- that is, you can do without the version a

Re: popen test hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Neil Jerram
"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" writes: > it seems that the popen test hangs: Grrr. I thought we'd nailed that... > then it hangs for at least an hour or so. My configure invocation is: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > --mandir=/usr/share/man

Re: array handles and non-local exits

2009-07-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Andy Wingo writes: > Good question. I suppose you have this case in mind: > > (define s0 (string "foo")) > (define s1 (substring/shared s0 0)) > (define s2 (substring/shared s1 0)) > (par-for-each (lambda (s) (string-set! s 0 #\b)) > (list s0 s1 s2)) Yes. OTO

Re: truth of %nil

2009-07-06 Thread Neil Jerram
Mark H Weaver writes: > Below is a proposal for how to make boolean tests and end-of-list > tests faster and more compact, by renumbering the representations for > SCM_ELISP_NIL, SCM_EOL, SCM_UNDEFINED, and SCM_EOF_VAL. Interesting. I haven't looked at every detail but I'm happy to go along wit

Re:GNU Guile 1.8.7 released

2009-07-06 Thread carlo.bramix
Hello, I saw that into the new 1.8.7 there is already the fix for the mingw cross compiler that does not export global structures into DLL. I do not know if you can find this helpful, but I also tried with another cross compiler than the one packaged into debian distributions and it worked perfe

Re: truth of %nil

2009-07-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:46:11PM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote: > Assuming you are planning to work on the code changes for this, we > will need copyright assignment papers from you. Will that be OK? Yes, certainly. I live in the Boston area, so I'll stop by the FSF office and take care of that soo

Re: popen test hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Jerram wrote: > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" writes: > >> it seems that the popen test hangs: > > Grrr. I thought we'd nailed that... > >> then it hangs for at least an hour or so. My configure invocation is: >> >> ./configure --prefix=/usr --bu