Re: [Chicken-hackers] ugarit and tuples start breaking on 2012/03/03

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:23:17AM +0100, Felix wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Something changed in the core that makes ugarit and tuples break on
> > 2012/03/04.  They were not breaking the day before.
> > 
> > You can see the salmonella diff here:
> > http://tests.call-cc.org/master/linux/x86/2012/03/04/yesterday-diff/
> > 
> > The installation error messages for ugarit and tuples are here:
> > http://tests.call-cc.org/master/linux/x86/2012/03/04/salmonella-report/install/tuples.html
> > http://tests.call-cc.org/master/linux/x86/2012/03/04/salmonella-report/install/ugarit.html
> > 
> > The core commits range in which the cause of the problems may be is
> > b7f7e36 - b8363cb.
> 
> Some use of the "assert" macro now has line-number information and tries
> to string-append the "msg" argument to the file/lineno info string.
> Apparently "assert" is called with a non-string "msg" argument, but I
> can't disentangle the complex macros used in "contracts".

Possibly the simplest fix is to use "conc" instead?

Cheers,
Peter
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