---- Kannan Vijayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Follow-up Comment #2, bug #24554 (project guile): > > I have confirmed that the bug is not really a bug. The debian changelog > indicates that the --with-threads option was turned off with one of the 1.8.0 > releases of guile due to a bug. It doesn't seem to have been turned back on > since then.
I would imagine that --with-threads will not be turned back on until a 1.10.x (or 2.0.0 ?) release of Guile. My limited understanding of the situation (possibly incorrect): Using --without-threads changes the sizes of some data structures (I'm guessing they are smaller, with some pthreads stuff #ifdef'ed out), so that code compiled for one way will segfault when linked with code compiled for the other way. As far as just releasing new packages --with-threads, It's just not possible to go back an recompile all the currently existing packages on already existing systems. -Dale
