Re: begin oddities

2008-09-25 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/25 Bill Schottstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: oh -- it's the (f) that triggers the silly error, not the preceding stuff. Yes. This particular error isn't picked up until the code is actually executed. Neil

Re: guile-1.8.5 test failures

2008-10-06 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/5/29 Peter O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We built guile-1.8.5 on multiple machines with the native compilers and these patches: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2008-05/msg00020.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2008-05/msg00017.html (attached patch) For

Re: guile 1.8.5 compile segfault

2008-10-13 Thread Neil Jerram
Sorry to take a while to continue this investigation. 2008/9/23 tantalum [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i managed to get a core dump file. heres a backtrace and some frame x calling: http://pastebin.com/m3c55053b This: (gdb) frame 0 #0 scm_mark_locations (x=0x7fff7f4c8d68, n=18446744073709551561) at

Re: [bug #24554] Pthreads and Stack overflow in guile (reopen bug 20814?) (guile 1.8.5)

2008-10-14 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/10/14 Kannan Vijayan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Follow-up Comment #1, bug #24554 (project guile): Hrm, this may be a non-issue after-all. Digging through the source, I discovered the SCM_USE_PTHREAD_THREADS macro referred to in key places (crucially, the one-time thread initialization code

Re: guile-1.8.5 segfaults while building on ppc with gcc-4.3 and -O2

2008-11-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/12 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've had some reports that guile-1.8.5 segfaults while building on ppc with gcc-4.3 and -O2[1]. It seems to build fine with -O1 instead. Did anyone else see this behavior? Yes, sounds

Re: [PATCH] fix for Re: crash in gc with upside-down stack

2008-11-15 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/13 Ludovic Courtès [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The patch below fixes a crash during garbage collection, where, during the mark-stack phase, the top and bottom of the stack are found to be in backwards order, typically because scm_with_guile() was

Re: [PATCH] Final: thread lock nesting debugging

2008-11-19 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/19 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/17 Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been seeing all sorts of deadlocks in guile, and so I wrote a small debugging utility to try to track down the problems. Interesting patch! One query; I may be being a bit dumb, I'm only just

Re: [PATCH] Final: thread lock nesting debugging

2008-11-19 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/19 Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also I wondered if there are already tools to debug this kind of thing (without new Guile code), and a quick search finds this [1], which suggests that helgrind could catch bad lock ordering for us. [1] http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/valgrind

Re: compiling problems

2008-11-27 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/27 David Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hoping someone has a bit of time to look at this undefined reference to `lt__PROGRAM__LTX_preloaded_symbols bug. David, This is a known problem, caused by your machine having libltdl installed from Libtool 2.2 - whereas guile expects libltdl from

Re: 1.8.6 build error

2008-12-09 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/9 Ben Isajiw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I apologize if this is wrong email list for my question. Please provide correct list. This is the correct list. I try to build guile 1.8.6 as requirement for autogen as requirement for Anjuta. First error was cannot find libltdl.so.7. I

Re: 1.8.6 build error

2008-12-09 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/12/9 Ben Isajiw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, this is feasible as I can root Fedora 10 distribution of course. But maybe I'm not sure where -dev package for libltdl are served. Can you link me please? I don't know Fedora very well, but from a bit of googling it looks like you should

Re: guile make errors

2009-01-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Bill, 2009/1/15 w bugar wbu...@yahoo.com: Hi, trying to build guile on a fedora 10 box, getting some errors from make. Have installed libtool. Hope that this is the right address. Thx, Bill It looks like you've installed libtool in /usr/local, and that it isn't being found during the

Re: [FIX] guile 1.8.6 is broken in libguile/scmsigs.c, 206

2009-01-22 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Roland ... 2009/1/22 Roland Haeder r.hae...@web.de: Hi, in the above mentioned line you should better type: static scm_i_pthread_once_t once = {SCM_I_PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT}; That braces around the initializer are absend which is also my C compiler is complaining about. But please see the

Re: test-round fails on alpha

2009-01-27 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Anyway, I think experience from Debian (Rob Neil) on that matter could be helpful. It was being seen on m68k, and apparently that is not a release-critical architecture for Lenny (the next Debian release), so I stopped looking at it. I've appended

Re: [bug #25515] [1.8.5] __gnu_inline__ compiler warnings

2009-02-08 Thread Neil Jerram
Andrew SG Rojek invalid.nore...@gnu.org writes: URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25515 Summary: [1.8.5] __gnu_inline__ compiler warnings Project: Guile Submitted by: asgr Submitted on: Sun 08 Feb 2009 04:06:48 AM GMT

[bug #25515] [1.8.5] __gnu_inline__ compiler warnings

2009-02-08 Thread Neil Jerram
Update of bug #25515 (project guile): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Yes, we believe this

[bug #25519] Double currying does not work

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Jerram
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #25519 (project guile): I'm not sure that's right. Currying is a well known and unambiguous extension to the R5RS syntax, and I believe that Guile has supported it for ages. There are lots of mentions in the manual, and we have tests for it in

[bug #25525] Segfault using goops

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Jerram
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #25525 (project guile): In case it helps until this is fixed properly... This appears to be specific to the combination of - the use of name in the definition of test-class - the use of class as a superclass. I would guess related to the fact that class already has a

[bug #25865] scm_take_locale_symboln doesn't intern the symbol that it creates

2009-03-14 Thread Neil Jerram
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25865 Summary: scm_take_locale_symboln doesn't intern the symbol that it creates Project: Guile Submitted by: ossau Submitted on: Sat 14 Mar 2009 17:37:10 GMT Category: None

Re: [bug #25865] scm_take_locale_symboln doesn't intern the symbol that it creates

2009-03-18 Thread Neil Jerram
Ludovic Courtès invalid.nore...@gnu.org writes: I've come up with the following patch, which also refactorizes duplciated bits. I'll commit it if there's no objection. The patch looks fine to me. Thanks for fixing this! Neil

Re: Undefined symbol _start first referenced in file .libs/libguile_la-gc_os_dep.o

2009-03-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org writes: In the Solaris 10 ( AMD64/x86 ) world this si what happens when we attempt to build guile-1.8.6 with Sun Studio 12: Undefined first referenced symbol in file _start

Re: ERROR: In procedure scm_i_lreadparen: #unknown port:1:7: end of file

2009-03-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Andrius Burokas (javamustang) javamust...@gmail.com writes: Hello,   I'm having troubles to compile guile from source (guile-1.8.6). I am getting these errors: ERROR: In procedure scm_i_lreadparen: ERROR: #unknown port:1:7: end of file make[3]: *** [guile-procedures.texi] Error 1 Can you

Re: test-round fails on alpha

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) hk...@gentoo.org writes: it seems this is a glibc issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245701#c18 so not a guile bug :) Thanks for discovering this and letting us know! Neil

Re: INSTALL matters

2009-05-09 Thread Neil Jerram
Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org writes: Hi, Hi Bruno, I'm trying to win a prize here for most delayed email response :-) Seriously, thanks for raising this. This issue, and the related (in my mind) one about having multiple copies of a library installed in different places, keep cropping up now

Re: error messages of dynamic-link

2009-05-16 Thread Neil Jerram
tantalum m...@thaseph.de writes: Hi, while experimenting with using dynamic-link with guile 1.8.6, I noticed that some libraries can not be loaded. same location (/usr/lib), same filename extension (.so). for example libc.so, libopcodes.so. the error message always says File not Found,

Re: INSTALL matters

2009-05-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org writes: Hi Neil, Neil Jerram wrote in reply to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2008-05/msg00012.html: This issue, and the related (in my mind) one about having multiple copies of a library installed in different places Having multiple copies

Re: error messages of dynamic-link

2009-05-20 Thread Neil Jerram
tantalum m...@thaseph.de writes: I found out that the libraries which do not work contain a different kind of content: for example (complete file): /* GNU ld script Use the shared library, but some functions are only in the static library, so try that secondarily. */

Re: guile 1.9.0 scm_read_hash_extend gc trouble

2009-06-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Bill Schottstaedt b...@ccrma.stanford.edu writes: static SCM g_skip_block_comment(SCM ch, SCM port) [...] Then call scm_read_hash_extend with | to activate it. How do you wrap g_skip_block_comment to get a suitable argument for scm_read_hash_extend () ? Regards, Neil

Re: guile 1.9.0 scm_read_hash_extend gc trouble

2009-06-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: Bill Schottstaedt b...@ccrma.stanford.edu writes: static SCM g_skip_block_comment(SCM ch, SCM port) [...] Then call scm_read_hash_extend with | to activate it. How do you wrap g_skip_block_comment to get a suitable argument

Re: Cross-compiling with mingw

2009-06-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Next MinGW build issue: Sylvain Beucler b...@beuc.net writes: $ make [...] DLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/libguile_la-stime.o cc1: warnings being treated as errors stime.c:85: warning: ‘tzname’ redeclared without dllimport attribute: previous dllimport ignored I found 2 references to this

Re: debian packages of guile 1.9/2.0

2009-06-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org writes: It builds, but it looks like there's a make check error: Running threads.test FAIL: threads.test: lock-mutex: timed locking succeeds if mutex unlocked within timeout Running time.test

Re: guile 1.9.0 scm_read_hash_extend gc trouble

2009-06-22 Thread Neil Jerram
Bill Schottstaedt b...@ccrma.stanford.edu writes: I believe this is a GC problem; you're doing exactly what I'm doing, but in a context where the GC is not called. If I place the skip comment function in its own file, and compile it with optimization turned off, everything is happy; if

Re: Cross-compiling with mingw

2009-06-25 Thread Neil Jerram
, Neil From 8510e39278161d3cbf8ec4ba87b123fe28763ed4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:40:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Remove GDB_INTERFACE stuff from guile's main program The main motivation for this is wanting a successful MinGW build

Re: guile 1.9.0 scm_read_hash_extend gc trouble

2009-06-27 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: The attached patch adds a new `scm_t_off' type, whose definition does not depend on the application's `_FILE_OFFSET_BITS' value. Can you confirm that it allows you to build Guile with 32-bit offsets and Snd with 64-bit offsets (or vice versa)? Neil:

Re: guile 1.9.0 scm_read_hash_extend gc trouble

2009-06-29 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi Neil, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Yes. What do you think of the attached patch? For the record, I went ahead and committed it: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=0a94eb002eba6539879f2cddf3e45fb25976af8d Sorry

Re: complex number reader bug?

2009-06-30 Thread Neil Jerram
. It was an interesting problem, as I haven't gone very far into Guile's number handling code before. Neil From 04f9bc774a49b0ab54a37eb401b76aa824876c75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:39:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Read complex numbers where both parts

Re: popen test hangs

2009-07-06 Thread Neil Jerram
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) hk...@gentoo.org writes: it seems that the popen test hangs: Grrr. I thought we'd nailed that... then it hangs for at least an hour or so. My configure invocation is: ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Re: popen test hangs

2009-07-08 Thread Neil Jerram
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) hk...@gentoo.org writes: check-guile.log ends with PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: no args PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: port? PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: echo hello PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe: stdin==stderr PASS: popen.test: open-input-pipe:

Re: let-values* generates Unbound variable

2009-07-14 Thread Neil Jerram
Judy Hawkins jlhark...@yahoo.com writes: Unbound variable: let-values* So, in answer to my own question, it appears that my previous post is reporting a documentation bug, as using the spelling let*-values works just dandy: Thanks for reporting and looking into this. In the latest (1.8.7)

Re: Serious performance issues with 1.9.0

2009-07-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: Martin Ward mar...@gkc.org.uk writes: Running a test program on Guile 1.8.7 takes 100 seconds CPU time. On Guile 1.9.0 (beta) the same program takes 237 seconds CPU time! I wonder if that's because the code is being auto-compiled? Do you get

Re: call/cc oddness

2009-09-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Bill Schottstaedt b...@ccrma.stanford.edu writes: Is this a bug? I'd say not. It looks like a useful generalization. scheme@(guile-user) (call/cc (lambda (a . b) (a 1))) 1 scheme@(guile-user) (call/cc (lambda arg ((car arg) 1))) 1 scheme@(guile-user) (call/cc (lambda (a b) (a 1)))

Re: load_extension calls scm_dynamic_call unconditionally

2009-09-23 Thread Neil Jerram
Scott McPeak smcp...@coverity.com writes: This this correct? It certainly is, and we recently made almost exactly this change in the Git repo - see [1]. It has been in the 1.9.x pre-releases since end March, and will be in 2.0. I also just cherry-picked it to the 1.8.x branch, so it'll be in

Re: socket examples say INADDR_LOCALHOST rather than INADDR_LOOPBACK

2009-10-01 Thread Neil Jerram
Scott McPeak smcp...@coverity.com writes: In the documentation for Guile's 'connect' call: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/Network-Sockets-and-Communication.html it gives examples: (connect sock AF_INET INADDR_LOCALHOST 23) (connect sock (make-socket-address

[bug #27575] socket examples say INADDR_LOCALHOST rather than INADDR_LOOPBACK

2009-10-01 Thread Neil Jerram
Update of bug #27575 (project guile): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: scm_to_sockaddr mishandles IPv6 addresses

2009-10-01 Thread Neil Jerram
Scott McPeak smcp...@coverity.com writes: Hi, In Guile-1.8.7, the function 'scm_to_sockaddr' mishandles IPv6 addresses. Specifically, it passes the 'address' parameter (which is a vector) to the 'scm_to_ipv6' function, which expects an integer. I have a patch, at the end, that fixes the

[bug #27574] scm_to_sockaddr mishandles IPv6 addresses

2009-10-01 Thread Neil Jerram
Update of bug #27574 (project guile): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #27577] inet-ntop example is missing quotes around ffff:ffff:...

2009-10-01 Thread Neil Jerram
Update of bug #27577 (project guile): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Thanks, I've fixed

Re: Intel icc finds too many errors in guile 1.8.8 to compile

2009-10-02 Thread Neil Jerram
I.Gutheil i.guth...@fz-juelich.de writes: Hello all, did anyone try to compile the guile codes with another compiler but the gcc? When I tried to use the icc, I got gen-scmconfig.c(257): error #279: controlling expression is constant if (SCM_I_GSC_C_INLINE) ^

Re: Intel icc finds too many errors in guile 1.8.8 to compile

2009-10-04 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi, Hi Ludo, Thanks for your comments below. I should have posted this change for review first, so apologies for not doing that. Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: I.Gutheil i.guth...@fz-juelich.de writes: [...] debug.c(62): error #188

Re: ERROR: In procedure scm_i_lreadparen: #unknown port:1:7: end of file

2009-10-18 Thread Neil Jerram
Andrius Burokas (javamustang) javamust...@gmail.com writes: 2009/3/24 Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net Andrius Burokas (javamustang) javamust...@gmail.com writes: Hello,   I'm having troubles to compile guile from source (guile-1.8.6). I am getting these errors: ERROR

Re: Problem generating documentation

2009-10-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Xan Lopez x...@gnome.org writes: Hi, Using commit 32b12f40509e4bcb0823e1bb2a57e50af14560b5, I get the following error when the doc is being generated: ERROR: In procedure skip_block_comment: ERROR: /home/xan/git/guile/guile-tools:1:3: unterminated `#! ... !#' comment If you take a look at

Re: Problem generating documentation

2009-10-28 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: I think the deal was that it used to be generated, and in the root. But I changed it to be not generated, and in the meta/. But this error was coming from Scheme; perhaps there was a issue with load path issue

Re: Guile 1.9: bug in load

2009-11-19 Thread Neil Jerram
Luca Saiu posit...@gnu.org writes: It's really been a pleasure to meet you and Ludovic face to face. My greetings to Neil, too. Thanks Luca. It sounds like you all had a really great meeting; I'm sorry I missed it! Regards, Neil

Re: bug

2009-12-08 Thread Neil Jerram
Patrice Fromy patrice.fr...@u-psud.fr writes: ../libguile/numbers.h:362:2: erreur: #error sizeof(char) is not 1. ../libguile/numbers.h:383:2: erreur: #error sizeof(short) is not 1, 2, or 4. ../libguile/numbers.h:400:2: erreur: #error sizeof(int) is not 4 or 8. ../libguile/numbers.h:416:2:

Re: remove ascii images from pdf

2009-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Brian Gough b...@network-theory.co.uk writes: At Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:23:19 +, Neil Jerram wrote: Unfortunately these changes don't completely work for me. I wonder if that's because I'm using unhelpful versions of tex/texinfo.tex and makeinfo? Hi Neil, I've looked into this now

Re: Hash Table examples - hashq takes different number of arguments

2009-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Brian Gough b...@network-theory.co.uk writes: In the Hash Tables Example in the manual, hashq needs 2 arguments instead of 1 (patch below). I've updated the hash table output as well to match the current version. Thanks, committing shortly. Neil

Re: [PATCH] added brief introduction about SLIB

2009-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Brian Gough b...@network-theory.co.uk writes: This patch adds a short introduction to the SLIB section of the manual with a link to the SLIB homepage. Thanks, this is nice; will commit shortly. Neil

Re: [PATCH] make the use of the 5-argument @xref command consistent

2009-12-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Brian Gough b...@network-theory.co.uk writes: A few of the @xref references to external manuals in the documentation are using an old 4-argument form that produces an undefined reference in the printed manual. The following patch makes them consistent with the 5-argument @xrefs used

Re: [PATCH] Declare `GC_dump' ourselves if gc/gc.h doesn't.

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Sat 09 Jan 2010 14:28, Thien-Thi Nguyen t...@gnuvola.org writes: +# `GC_dump' is available in GC 6.8 but not declared. Neil, you also compile with pre-7.x, no? Do we need to support this? No, I use 7.1. I thought I recalled Ludo saying that we need at

Re: make-glil-local ?

2010-02-28 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi, Thien-Thi Nguyen t...@gnuvola.org writes: There was a warning in about possibly undefined `make-glil-local' in module/language/glil/decompile-assembly.scm and indeed i can't find that symbol anywhere... Yes, we all see these warnings. The idea

Re: make-glil-local ?

2010-03-01 Thread Neil Jerram
Thien-Thi Nguyen t...@gnuvola.org writes: () l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) () Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:54:05 +0100 Is the warning correct? Of course it is! :-) I don't understand the question or the answer. (That is, what does correct mean?) I'm sorry, I should have been clearer.

Re: errors building guile 1.8.6 for Interix, with some small patches

2010-03-25 Thread Neil Jerram
With apologies for the lateness of this response... Jay jay.kr...@cornell.edu writes: /src/guile-1.8.6/libguile/filesys.c: In function `scm_readdir': /src/guile-1.8.6/libguile/filesys.c:918: warning: implicit declaration of functi on `readdir_r' [...] Surely: #if !defined(_REENTRANT)

Re: errors building guile 1.8.6 for Interix 3.5, with some small patches

2010-03-25 Thread Neil Jerram
Jay jay.kr...@cornell.edu writes: Here is a very strange but successul fix for the hang. Now guile 1.8.6 builds all the way through for me. C:\src\guile-1.8.6\libguile\cygwin\bin\diff -u iselect.h.orig iselect.h --- iselect.h.orig 2009-06-19 12:14:43.265625000 -0700 +++ iselect.h

Re: windows sockets vs. file descriptors bugs in Guile

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Jerram
56a69318b55f0a231cf1531d2b7035c994df6579 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:41:54 + Subject: [PATCH] Fix windows sockets vs. file descriptors bugs Patch is from Scott McPeak, modified by me to be as conservative as possible with respect to existing 1.8.x non-MinGW

Re: windows sockets vs. file descriptors bugs in Guile

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: Most of that patch is yours, so we will need a copyright assignment from you. Please say if you need help finding and submitting the papers for that (or if it's a problem). I'm sorry, on rereading your previous email I see that you already said let

Re: (no subject)

2010-03-29 Thread Neil Jerram
kamal lamta lamtab...@gmail.com writes: hello Mr Neil, sorry it seems you couldn't open the ''.rar'' i send you you will find joined a .zip file containes the detailes Thanks. The important part of this is the following message from the end of the configure output: checking for

Re: Lack of Documentation for (ice-9 regex) in Guile 1.9.10

2010-05-21 Thread Neil Jerram
On 21 May 2010 12:28, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu 20 May 2010 03:36, Noah Lavine noah...@gmail.com writes: I found the documentation in info - sorry for the confusion. It didn't occur to me that a regexp would be considered a Simple Data Type. Interesting observation. Copying

Re: Build Error in Latest Git Sources

2010-06-13 Thread Neil Jerram
Noah Lavine noah.b.lav...@gmail.com writes: /bin/sh: line 1: 82299 Broken pipe cat alist.doc I'm unsure what would cause this, but I'm happy to help track it down if I can. I saw a problem which I think was like this, but it did not recur after doing a make -k distclean and then

[bug #28091] scm_wrong_type_arg_msg is not documented

2010-09-11 Thread Neil Jerram
Update of bug #28091 (project guile): Assigned to:None = ossau Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: It is documented now.

Re: Lack of Documentation for (ice-9 regex) in Guile 1.9.10

2010-10-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Thu 20 May 2010 03:36, Noah Lavine noah...@gmail.com writes: I found the documentation in info - sorry for the confusion. It didn't occur to me that a regexp would be considered a Simple Data Type. Interesting observation. Copying Neil, who's working on

Re: Dead URL on the Guile resources web page

2010-10-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Graeme Cross graeme.cr...@planetinnovation.com.au writes: Hi. There is a dead URL on the Guile resources web page (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/resources.html). The URL is for Lumpy Guile: http://home.thezone.net/~gharvey/guile You might want to remove it from the list of Guile

Re: Segmentation Fault in guile-1.8.7 on recent Macbook Pro

2010-10-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Fabian Schuetz i...@fms-edv.de writes: While experimenting with undefine, I discovered, that even quite important functions, like write or display can be undefined. The problem is, that calling them after they have been undefined, leads to an endless regression, displaying a Segmentation

Re: Broken link on http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/resources.html#guile_resources

2010-10-30 Thread Neil Jerram
fran...@frankie.mx writes: On the page http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/resources.html#guile_resources there is a link titled Lumpy Guile that leads to http://home.thezone.net/~gharvey/guile This link just sends me to a page of adverts, so I guess it needs removing or updating. I believe

Re: Lack of Documentation for (ice-9 regex) in Guile 1.9.10

2010-10-31 Thread Neil Jerram
Noah Lavine noah...@gmail.com writes: If you look at the Simple Data Types section of the manual, regular expressions are very different than the other things in the menu: numbers, characters, strings, bytevectors, etc. The manual section they are most similar to is the one on LALR(1)

Re: Test fail in Guile-1.8.5

2010-12-07 Thread Neil Jerram
On 4 December 2010 22:12, Nick Cripps nick.cri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build guile-1.8.5 but, when running make check, one of the tests (test-asmobs) fails. Why 1.8.5 ? Can you try 1.8.7, which is the latest in the 1.8.x series? Thanks, Neil

Re: [bug] Bad refernce to GMP in README.

2010-12-23 Thread Neil Jerram
Yuriy Taraday yorik@gmail.com writes: Hello. Link to GNU MP in README should be changed to http://gmplib.org/. Thanks, that was fixed in Git in September 2009, between the 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 releases. Are you looking at an old codebase? Neil

Re: [bug] Bad refernce to GMP in README.

2010-12-23 Thread Neil Jerram
Yuriy Taraday yorik@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net wrote: Yuriy Taraday yorik@gmail.com writes: Hello. Link to GNU MP in README should be changed to http://gmplib.org/. Thanks, that was fixed in Git

Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page

2011-01-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com writes: Looking at the latest revision pulled from the git repository: 1) The manual page does not document the '-q' command-line option. 2) The manual page includes the text: There is also a tutorial (info guile-tut) available. It appears that the

Re: More missing options for guile/doc/guile.1

2011-01-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com writes: Here is a list of additional options that are not described in the guile manual page: Thank you for pointing these out, and for suggesting suitable text. However, rather than applying these updates, I wonder if the OPTIONS section of guile.1 should instead

Re: Guile 1.9.14 GIT version linking errror

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com writes: On 16 Jan 2011, at 00:11, Hans Aberg wrote: ... when I try to install guile-1.9.14, I get the error below (Mac OS X 10.5.8 PPC G4). ld: duplicate symbol ___gmpz_abs in .libs/libguile_2.0_la-arbiters.o and .libs/libguile_2.0_la-alist.o And I get the

Re: Guile 1.9.14 GIT version linking errror

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com writes: On 16 Jan 2011, at 00:11, Hans Aberg wrote: ... when I try to install guile-1.9.14, I get the error below (Mac OS X 10.5.8 PPC G4). ld: duplicate symbol ___gmpz_abs in .libs/libguile_2.0_la-arbiters.o

Re: More missing options for guile/doc/guile.1

2011-01-26 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Sat 15 Jan 2011 22:15, Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com writes: Here is a list of additional options that are not described in the guile manual page: Thank you for pointing these out, and for suggesting suitable

Re: Gentoo : test of package dev-scheme/guile-1.8.5-r1 failed

2011-02-06 Thread Neil Jerram
Toralf Förster toralf.foers...@gmx.de writes: [in the attachment:] ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: ERROR: file: libtest-asmobs, message: file not found FAIL: test-asmobs Please try searching for such problems before posting, especially when using a release that is not the latest available.

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-13 Thread Neil Jerram
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes: Hi Neil, Hi Ralf, I pushed some more changes based on your input. Below has just a few specific notes. * Neil Jerram wrote on Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 01:49:43AM CET: Will @var always generate appropriate markup for making it clear

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Jerram
On 16 February 2011 00:52, Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com wrote: take a detour implies that there is an obstacle that is preventing the author from what would otherwise be the desirable route. No, not really. For example, the Michelin travel guides have been using the phrase worth a detour for

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com writes: Some of the discussion below was getting too far off-topic [...] Hi Mark, Your development of the argument below is interesting, and I think it could be an interesting discussion to have. In this email, though, I just wanted to mention a couple of points,

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi! While we’re at it... Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com writes: By simple we mean data types that are not primarily used as containers to hold other data -- i.e. pairs, lists, vectors and so on. This should be “to hold other data---i.e., pairs”,

Re: build errors: 9172 Broken pipe and 9173 Segmentation fault

2011-03-23 Thread Neil Jerram
Douglas Mencken dougmenc...@gmail.com writes: GEN guile-procedures.texi /bin/bash: line 1: 9172 Broken pipe cat alist.doc [...] 9173 Segmentation fault | GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ../meta/uninstalled-env guile-tools snarf-check-and-output-texi Hi Douglas, AFAIK

Re: [guile-2.0.0] one test failed

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras vonbecm...@gmail.com writes: one test failed when trying to install guile-2.0.0 on  Ubuntu 10.10 maverick FAIL: popen.test: open-output-pipe: no duplicate This one is fixed now in git, so will be OK in the next release. Or, you can merge

Re: exit dynamic wind

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: I have pushed something that causes the stack to be unwound before exiting. Please let me know if you still see problems. Unfortunately, yes. Now when snarf-check-and-output-texi is run, I see: | GENguile-procedures.texi | guile: uncaught throw to

Re: exit dynamic wind

2011-03-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: | GENguile-procedures.texi | guile: uncaught throw to wrong-type-arg: (#f Wrong type (expecting ~A): ~S (exact integer (#t #catch-closure 9916c10 #catch-closure 9916be0)) ((#t #catch-closure 9916c10 #catch-closure 9916be0))) This, it turns out, was

Re: guile-2.0.0 fails to build without threads

2011-05-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Marco Maggi marco.maggi-i...@poste.it writes: Someone left ACTION-IF-FALSE empty This is fine, isn't it? and also left the test without checking message in this chunk of configure.ac: Agree that that is unhelpful. maybe the problem is that GCC 4.6.0 with -O3 optimises the program in

Re: guile-2.0.0 fails to build without threads

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: Fixed in git, for the time being. It's an arms race with the compiler, and clearly code clarity is losing: FWIW, I think I looked a while back at the possibility of detecting stack direction at Guile runtime instead - where it is in principle trivial - and

bug#33403: [Geiser-users] Data length limit in Guile/Geiser/Scheme evaluation

2018-11-15 Thread Neil Jerram
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bug#33403: [Geiser-users] Data length limit in Guile/Geiser/Scheme evaluation

2018-11-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> This is a documented limitation in Linux's terminal handling when in >> canonical mode. See the termios(3) man page, which includes this text: >> >>Canonical and noncanonical mode >> >>

bug#33403: [Geiser-users] Data length limit in Guile/Geiser/Scheme evaluation

2018-11-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Mark H Weaver writes: > This is a documented limitation in Linux's terminal handling when in > canonical mode. See the termios(3) man page, which includes this text: > >Canonical and noncanonical mode > >The setting of the ICANON canon flag in c_lflag determines >

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