Re: ERROR: Stack overflow from 1.8.6 on HP-UX 11.23/IA, 11.31/IA

[Albert Chin <guile-devel@mlists.thewrittenword.com>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:50:59PM +0000, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Albert Chin <guile-devel@mlists.thewrittenword.com> writes:
> 
> >> 1. Do all of the standalone tests fail with a stack overflow, or just
> >> those two?
> >
> > Unknown. Some of the tests fail to dlopen some modules:
> >   ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> >   ERROR: file: "libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3", message: "can't open the module"
> >   FAIL: test-require-extension
> >   ...
> >   ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> >   ERROR: file: "libtest-asmobs", message: "can't open the module"
> >   FAIL: test-asmobs
> >
> > I haven't looked into why.
> 
> Looks like not being up to pick up uninstalled libraries.  You may
> like to use strace (or similar) to investigate where the system is
> looking, and see if there's a way to tell it to look in libguile.  (We
> try to do this with the LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH variable, but perhaps that
> isn't working on HP-UX?)

I'll look into it.

> >> 2. Can you send us your libguile/stack-limit-calibration.scm?
> >
> > Attached.
> 
> OK, so there's a factor of 3 there.  Can you try changing the hardcode
> stack limit in eval.c from 20000 to 60000, and see if that allows the
> affected tests to pass?  If it does, we'll have to find a way of
> applying the factor in libguile/stack-limit-calibration.scm before
> Guile starts booting.

Bumping the stack limit to 60000 solved the problem.

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)