Re: [PATCH] Fix hanging of popen.test

[Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>]

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> So my hypothesis now is:
>
> - some change in the last few months has introduced a dependency of
>   Guile script startup (specifically including the case where Guile is
>   run to generate guile-procedures.texi) on srfi-1.scm
>
> - this makes the build impossible!
>
> - for regular developers, this may be masked by having a libguile.so and
>   libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-4.so in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib that are
>   recent enough to work.
>
> Can anyone else build current git from scratch if they first hide or
> delete any guile libraries in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib?

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