Re: incompatibility between using 1.8.1 and 1.8.2

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> G-Wrap also has been bitten by that; from the guile-1.8 changelog.Debian:
> 
> guile-1.8 (1.8.2+1-2) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Re-enable threads.
> 
>  -- Rob Browning <address@hidden>  Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:59:12 -0700
> 
> Apparently, enabling thread support changes the ABI; to verify this is
> indeed the problem, try texmacs together with guile-1.8 1.8.2+1-1 - if
> I'm correct, that should fix the segfault. Then just rebuild with the
> latest guile-1.8 to fix the problem.
> 

If texmacs is compiled with guile 1.8.2+1-1, and run on a machine having
guile 1.8.2+1-1 then there are no problems. The problem arises only if
there is a mix of guile versions. Does change in ABI count as a bug?

raju
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