Hi! Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> skribis:
> On Wed 21 Sep 2016 10:23, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Hello! >> >> Nalaginrut reported that Guix fails to build with Guile 2.2, which was a >> bit of a shame, hence commits e465d9e19087ab150f7e31f21c09e4a147b93b36 >> and 9d126aa2b504bb9fad536eac186805ff623e96be. >> >> Now, the hack in build-aux/compile-all.scm doesn’t quite work with 2.2, >> and it was already quite fragile. > > Which hack? You mean loading modules before compiling? I guess you > should load the compiler modules too FWIW, perhaps that's an issue. > > If there is a nice change we can do to make module-loading thread-safe, > let's think about that :) It's probably the biggest thread-safety > problem we have in Guile and now would be the right time to fix it. I agree this is the right thing to do. My guess is that this would have to be approached in C, to avoid the fat mutex overhead. But hmm, I dunno exactly what this entails! Ludo’.
