bug#27766: Bug with Guile 2.0.22

bug#27766: Bug with Guile 2.0.22

[Poussin, David L M]

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Dear Sir or Madam,

My name is David Poussin, I am a PHD in Imperial College London.

For my study, I try to use a simulation software named “ MIT Photonics bandgap “.
This software uses the guile library for part of its calculation.

However, when I try to launch it I obtain this error.


David$ mpb

Backtrace:

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

 160: 11 Exception thrown while printing backtrace:

ERROR: In procedure private-lookup: Module named (system vm frame) does not exist


ERROR: In procedure scm-error:

ERROR: no code for module (system base compile)



It seems this error comes from Guile.

I searched a little bit and the software I try to use calls a previous version of Guile , v2.0.22.

I tried to download the latest version, but after, the MIT software does not recognise it.


I am using a MAC OS Sierra, version 10.12.5.


Do you know where my error comes from?


Thank you by advance,

David Poussin

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bug#27766: Bug with Guile 2.0.22

[David Pirotte]

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Hi David,

> For my study, I try to use a simulation software named “ MIT Photonics bandgap “.
> This software uses the guile library for part of its calculation.

> David$ mpb
> Backtrace:

> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  160: 11 Exception thrown while printing backtrace:
> ERROR: In procedure private-lookup: Module named (system vm frame) does not exist
> ...

In order to check that you (at least) have a proper guile installed first, try to run
guile 'on its own', open a terminal and just enter 'guile', or 'guile --version'

But anyway, I suggest you report this to the MIT Photonics bandgap maintainers,
because (a) there is no specific guile version checked at configure time, and the
manual states what guile version is expected..., then (b) it is very unlikely their
code will run with the latest guile stable verion, 2.2.2 (and prior to the 2.2
series, the latest was 2.0.14, not 2.0.22, for info)

	It seems the project was started 18y ago, the source code even refers
	to guile-1.2 ...

David

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bug#27766: Bug with Guile 2.0.22

[David Pirotte]

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> But anyway, I suggest you report this to the MIT Photonics bandgap maintainers,
> because (a) there is no specific guile version checked at configure time, and the
> manual states what guile version is expected...

correction:

	... their manual _does not_ state  what guile version is expected...


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