Re: signal handling different in 1.8.3 than 1.8.1?

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi,

Gregory Marton <gremio@csail.mit.edu> writes:

> It turns out I can't find a repository revision where it works.  All
> of the major tagged releases fail, including 1.8.1, which makes me
> suspicious, because my Debian-installed guile 1.8.1 continues to work
> (see below).  Is there a place to look for Debian's possible
> modifications to guile? Might something else be going on?

IIRC, 1.8.1 was compiled with `--without-threads', so you might want to
try it.  Debian-specific modifications are available in the Debian
archive, i.e.,
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/guile-1.8/guile-1.8_1.8.1+1-4.diff.gz .

> I've attached a small test suite that should demonstrate the problem.
> Can anyone else reproduce it?  Can anyone else see it pass on 1.8.1 or
> any other version?

With `master':

  $ guile ~/tmp/test-timeout.scm 
  1.9.0
  fell asleepoh no, you fell asleep!Expected: outer timeout
  Observed: #<unspecified>
  outer time has expired, and outer handler is used

> $ libguile/guile ../test-timeout.scm

You should instead use the `pre-inst-guile' script.

Thanks,
Ludovic.