2008/5/15 Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Package: guile-1.8
> Version: 1.8.5+1-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
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> Guile-1.8 currently fails to build on ia64
The ia64 problem is one that we've fixed upstream since 1.8.5, and I've
provided the patch for testing to Rob Browning (Debian maintainer).
> , m68k, mips, mipsel and
> powerpc. I created two patches which let it build again on mips,
The symptoms on mips, mipsel, powerpc are the same (seg fault when
processing snarfed docs), so hopefully your patches will fix all of those.
The symptom on m68k (failed assertion in test-round) looks unrelated.
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> however, one of those patches is only a workaround.
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> There are two problems:
> - For Linux on mips/mipsel the gc definitions look decidedly strange,
> I replaced those with more sensible variants.
I believe those definitions came from the Boehm GC library. Do you happen
to know whether similar improvements have already been applied to Boehm GC?
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> - For at least mips, but probably a number of other architectures as
> well, the stack direction check goes wrong. It looks like gcc
> outsmarts the autoconf test. I worked around by removing the test,
> this breaks HP/UX on hppa, and probably also some old Cray machines.
So is it the case that the stack actually grows down on mips (and mipsel and
powerpc)? Did you see (or work out) exactly how gcc was outsmarting the
test?
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> Thiemo
Many thanks for your report!
Neil
