Re: Build failure on master

[Ludovic Courtès]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> ERROR: In procedure make_objcode_by_mmap:
>>> ERROR: bad header on object file: "GOOF-0.5"
>>
>> Make sure to remove all `.go' files from your source tree and from the
>> cache (either `~/.guile-ccache' or `~/.cache/guile/ccache').  Then
>> hopefully you'll be able to compile Guile.
>
> Surely the point of having a version number on the object file format
> would be to actually take notice of it, and to change the number when
> we make format changes...?
>
> (I'm assuming that this problem was caused by a format change...)

Yes.

Currently, the code just checks for the magic cookie (see
`make_objcode_by_mmap ()'), and if it differs, e.g., because the version
isn't right, it just bails out.

Eventually,