Hi Eli :)
Thank you for your ongoing work on MinGW and Guile, it's really
appreciated. I just wanted to say that explicitly here, even though I'm
closing this bug, as I understand that things have progressed a bit in
these 3 years; anyway. Your work is so valuable to many users. Thanks!
Andy
On Tue 07 May 2013 19:18, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com>
>> Cc: l...@gnu.org, 10474-d...@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:25:06 +0100
>>
>> So with these last commits, hopefully native MinGW builds are supported.
>> Would you mind testing again? Please send a new mail to
>> bug-guile@gnu.org to track any new failures.
>
> Thanks, and sorry for a long delay.
>
> I tried today building Guile 2.0.9. The C compilation went very
> smoothly, with only a couple of warnings (one is the known iconv
> prototype "issue", the other a variable that is set and not used).
> However, once it got to compiling Scheme files, it repeatedly failed
> after writing each .go file. Here are a few typical failures:
>
> GEN guile-procedures.texi
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
> ?: 3 [apply-smob/1 #<boot-closure 234da60 (_ _ _)> #t ...]
> ?: 2 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 2e07050> quit #<unspecified>]
> ?: 1 [apply-smob/1 #<boot-closure 234da60 (_ _ _)> #t ...]
> ?: 0 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 3f7eea0>]
>
> ERROR:
>
> The program then sits at the ERROR: prompt, but does not accept any
> input.
>
> Seems that this comes from smob.c:
>
> static SCM
> scm_smob_trampoline (unsigned int nreq, unsigned int nopt,
> unsigned int rest)
> {
> SCM trampoline;
>
> if (SCM_UNLIKELY (rest > 1 || nreq + nopt + rest > 3))
> scm_out_of_range ("make-smob", scm_from_uint (nreq + nopt + rest));
>
> trampoline = SCM_SMOB_TRAMPOLINE (nreq, nopt, rest);
>
> if (SCM_LIKELY (SCM_UNPACK (trampoline)))
> return trampoline;
>
> switch (nreq + nopt + rest)
> {
> /* The + 1 is for the smob itself. */
> case 0:
> trampoline = scm_c_make_gsubr ("apply-smob/0", nreq + 1, nopt, rest,
> apply_0);
> break;
> case 1:
> trampoline = scm_c_make_gsubr ("apply-smob/1", nreq + 1, nopt, rest,
> apply_1);
>
> But I have no idea what it means.
>
> When this happens, guile.exe still runs (actually, there are 2 Guile
> processes, one a child of the other), so it is impossible to delete
> guile-procedures.texi, because one of these processes holds it open.
> I needed to kill guile.exe (the child) to be able to try again.
>
> I tried "make -k" to see how far I can advance. The next compilation
> of ice-9/eval.scm then stops with the same error:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/d/usr/eli/utils/guile-2.0.9/module'
> GUILEC ice-9/eval.go
> wrote `ice-9/eval.go'
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
> ?: 3 [apply-smob/1 #<boot-closure 26cca60 (_ _ _)> #t ...]
> ?: 2 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 2b12100> quit #<unspecified>]
> ?: 1 [apply-smob/1 #<boot-closure 26cca60 (_ _ _)> #t ...]
> ?: 0 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 3af6340>]
>
> ERROR:
>
> Similarly after compiling ice-9/readline.scm:
>
> wrote `ice-9/readline.go'
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
> ?: 4 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 246faf0> quit #<unspecified>]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
> 484: 3 [eval # #]
> 481: 2 [lp (#<fluid 13>) (#<procedure 40d9d20 at ice-9/eval.scm:264:7
> %args>)]
> In unknown file:
> ?: 1 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 3ccb440>]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
> 481: 0 [lp (#<fluid 12>) ((#<catch-closure 3ccb420>))]
>
> ice-9/eval.scm:481:19:
>
> Any ideas? Where should I look for the source of this problem?
>
> TIA
