Re: displaying a backtrace in the shell

[Erica L Cooper]

hi,

yes, that worked - I had previously been enabling backtrace for the 
command line but not debug.

thanks so much!
-erica


On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Ludovic Court?s wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Erica L Cooper <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > which, if you run in interactive Guile, displays the backtrace without
> > complaint.  however, when you execute this from the command line, it
> > says,
> >
> > Exception during displaying of backtrace: wrong-type-arg
>
> My guess is that when you run it from the command-line, debugging is
> disabled by default (conversely, it is enabled by default at the REPL).
> Thus, `(make-stack #t)' returns `#f', hence the `wrong-type-arg' later
> on.
>
> For this to work, you need to explicitly enable debugging using
> something like "(debug-enable 'debug)".
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ludovic.
>
>
>
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