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: guile-2.0.0 fails to build without threads Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:39:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87oc1pr1ec.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <4D9DCE98.5080808@gentoo.org> <87y63gj765.fsf@rapitore.luna> <87aafusesz.fsf@rapitore.luna> <874o62s7hu.fsf@rapitore.luna> <87y63eqmp3.fsf@rapitore.luna> <87hb9d4o8n.fsf@rapitore.luna> <87oc2xdxkv.fsf@rapitore.luna> <87ipt4f9fu.fsf@rapitore.luna> <878vt092m3.fsf@pobox.com> <87sjr5lyeq.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 1308778779 10427 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2011 21:39:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 22 23:39:35 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 1QZV95-0000E1-1r for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:39:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60861 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZV94-0003xb-A3 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZV8j-0003x7-Jm for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZV8i-00040Q-92 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:34770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZV8h-0003xm-V0 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (unknown [78.149.195.74]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9D11F6635; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:38:17 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net (unknown [192.168.11.10]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDA13801E; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:38:11 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87sjr5lyeq.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:06:37 +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:5693 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > Fixed in git, for the time being. It's an arms race with the compiler, > and clearly code clarity is losing: FWIW, I think I looked a while back at the possibility of detecting stack direction at Guile runtime instead - where it is in principle trivial - and then we'd no longer need this configure-time check. IIRC it (runtime detection) looked like a quite straightforward change. I didn't proceed at the time because the configure-time detection still seemed to be easy and robust; but if that is now starting to become untrue... Neil