From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Parts of the test-suite hanging forever Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:49:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87boxot8gb.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87pqmgma6e.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> <87fwn0vlq9.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308872919 16572 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2011 23:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, Frank Terbeck To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 01:48:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QZtdS-0000zL-1a for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:48:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50375 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZtdR-0003LT-1V for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:48:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZtdB-0003LF-0X for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZtdA-0001J5-1s for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:45551) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZtd9-0001FD-Ta for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (unknown [78.145.25.75]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29361F667A; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:47:23 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net (unknown [192.168.11.10]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7DD38021; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:47:17 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87fwn0vlq9.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:19:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 80.84.72.33 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5697 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > Things do appear to work correctly with libgc 7.2alpha5 (or CVS). > Perhaps given that master has moved away from pthread redirection, we > should simply require libgc 7.2 for Guile 2.2. Yes, absolutely. Speaking as a user :-), I would not mind at all being told "you must use version X.Y of libgc because it's the only one we support". Based on the number and complexity of GC-related issues over the last few months, and the level on continuing change in libgc, I think it could be a fruitless and losing battle to try to support multiple libgc versions - and at the very least it's a lot of extra effort. (And IMO it's also fine for you to arbitrarily advance the X.Y, when there's a new libgc release with a fix or feature that Guile needs.) Regards, Neil