Re: [PATCH] Fix hanging of popen.test

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello,

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

>> It occurred to me that if this is right, the Hydra build should be
>> failing too.  And I think it is.  The "gnu:guile-master:tarball" build
>> last succeeded on 17th June, and has been failing since then:
>> http://hydra.nixos.org/job/gnu/guile-master/tarball/all?page=1
>
> This has been an on-and-off issue:
> 02fcbf78b27788c03563e5c3d297a4cd469ce562, and
> 04af4c4c5221c082905d52eb5ad3829ed681d097. Indeed running the repl before
> srfi-1 is built should not work. As a corollary, the docstring texi
> thing should not require srfi-1 to work, which obviously is failing for
> you and hydra, though not for me and a number of other people. I don't
> really get it. I thought this was fixed. There have been a couple
> threads about this, even, if you search the archives in recent months.

Though that’s not the proper fix, I propose to rewrite the SRFI-1 bits
that are in C to Scheme.  I’ll look into it if nobody beats me at it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.