Re: guile 1.8.3 fails to build on sparc

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I don't have access to sparc machine to probe into this problem. Can someone
>> look at
>> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=guile-1.8;ver=1.8.3%2B1-1;arch=sparc;stamp=1195798674
>> and see why guile-1.8-libs fails to build on a sparc machine?
>
> Sorry this response is so delayed.  Seems to be a GC issue:
>
> FAIL: gc.test: gc: Unused modules are removed
>
> I'll take a look.

FWIW, I have a sparc64 box and I noticed the problem long ago but was
essentially too lazy to fix it (I seem to recall that I blamed the test
case back then ;-)).

I'm pretty sure it's a boring problem, like a dangling reference to a
module kept on the stack.  I'll try to look into it.

Thanks,
Ludovic.