Re: Bug#351693: guile-1.6: builds on ia64, but causes other packages to FTBFS?

[Rob Browning]

Steve Langasek <address@hidden> writes:

> I see that guile-1.6 1.6.8-2 has now built successfully on ia64 (congrats!),
> but it looks like the first package to try to build *against* it, g-wrap,
> now fails with an error that looks like it's also a guile-1.6 problem:

[...]

> Rob, any ideas on this?

Indeed.  I can reproduce this in the sid chroot on merulo and after
some hacking, I've narrowed it down to a problem with Guile's
call-with-current-continuation (which is called by guile-library's
unit-test.scm[1]):

  (define (foo)
    (call-with-current-continuation
     (lambda (return)
       (return #t))))

  guile> (foo)
  Illegal instruction

I'm cc'ing upstream.


[1] Although Guile certainly needs to fix this bug, it looks like it
    might be easy to rewrite the unit-test.scm methods without using
    call-with-current-continuation, and at least with Guile, that
    should make them notably more efficient.

Thanks
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Rob Browning
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