OK, now I'm confused. I looked at the build log for ia64 from here -
http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=guile-1.8 - just a few minutes ago, when responding to another FTBFS report, and I'm sure it said that it was failing with an Illegal instruction in test-unwind. Is there any reason why these logs might be changing while I'm looking at them, or am I just going mad?
On another matter... it looks to me as though the build on alpha is now good, so I guess we must somehow have fixed the cause of the "wrong type to apply (#0# . #0#)" problem between 1.8.4 and
1.8.5. Would you agree with that, or am I misunderstanding the status?