Re: GNU Guile 1.8.4 released

[Neil Jerram]

2008/5/29 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:
> Hello,
>
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/package.php?p=guile-1.8&suite=unstable
>>
>> This page gives a nice summary of which builds have succeded and which builds
>> have failed. From the above page I see that the guile 1.8.5 failed to build
>> on ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc. There have been 1 attempt for each of
>> the architecture, except for ia64 where there have been 3 attempts to build
>> the guile 1.8.5 package.
>
> The failure on PowerPC (at least) is clearly a regression in 1.8.5.  I
> used to have access to a GNU/Linux PPC box but unfortunately, I no
> longer do.
>
> Can someone please help us fix this?  Viewing the backtrace at
> segfault-time might already give hints.  An account on such a machine
> would be even better.  :-)

See Debian bug #481378.  The symptom on powerpc is the same as on mips
and ia64, so it's probably the same cause for all of them, and we
believe that cause is a mistake in the stack direction detection.

On the other hand, it doesn't quite make sense at the moment, so we
could be wrong!

     Neil