Re: autocompilation support in master

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 09 Jun 2009 02:52, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:24:48AM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote:
>> > GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ../meta/uninstalled-env guile-tools compile -o 
>> > "language/ecmascript/spec.go" "language/ecmascript/spec.scm"
>> > ERROR: Stack overflow
>> 
>> This is still happening for me after pulling the latest master today.
>
> I have the same problem on Debian Lenny/x86, and am able to work
> around it by increasing the stack size resource limit.  On my system,
> "ulimit -s 16384" (within bash) before running "make" does the trick.
> Unfortunately, this is not a portable solution.

It's a strange thing, and I don't see it on my x86-32 laptop running
Fedora. But I've heard reports of this. A backtrace at the time of stack
overflow would be helpful.

Apologies for ongoing badness,

Andy
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