Re: GNU Guile 3.0.9rc1 available for testing!

[Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Guilers!
>
> (Cc’ing packagers I know; feel free to ping other packagers!)

I dropped the CC as I suspect all are on guile-devel.

> Please report any issues you may find.  I’m particularly interested in
> portability regressions (NetBSD and other BSDs, macOS, MinGW, as well as
> architectures other than x86_64).

Thanks for being welcoming to portability issues.

I am building from git via autogen first.  I'll try the tarball next.

(We do have a JIT/PaX issue on NetBSD which is worked around in
packaging, but that's not new and I don't want to ask you to hold this
micro over it.  I'll write a more coherent note about that separately.)

The build failed with:

----------------------------------------
make  all-recursive
Making all in lib
make  all-recursive
Making all in meta
Making all in libguile
make  all-am
  CC       libguile_3.0_la-posix.lo
In file included from ../config.h:3293:0,
                 from ../../libguile/posix.c:24:
../../libguile/posix.c:109:9: error: lvalue required as unary '&' operand
 verify (WEXITSTATUS (W_EXITCODE (127, 0)) == 127);
         ^
../../lib/verify.h:305:20: note: in expansion of macro '_GL_VERIFY'
 # define verify(R) _GL_VERIFY (R, "verify (" #R ")", -)
                    ^~~~~~~~~~
../../libguile/posix.c:109:1: note: in expansion of macro 'verify'
 verify (WEXITSTATUS (W_EXITCODE (127, 0)) == 127);
 ^~~~~~
../../libguile/posix.c:109:9: error: expression in static assertion is not an integer
 verify (WEXITSTATUS (W_EXITCODE (127, 0)) == 127);
         ^
../../lib/verify.h:305:20: note: in expansion of macro '_GL_VERIFY'
 # define verify(R) _GL_VERIFY (R, "verify (" #R ")", -)
                    ^~~~~~~~~~
../../libguile/posix.c:109:1: note: in expansion of macro 'verify'
 verify (WEXITSTATUS (W_EXITCODE (127, 0)) == 127);
 ^~~~~~
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[3]: stopped in /home/n0/gdt/SOFTWARE/GUILE/guile/BUILD/libguile
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[2]: stopped in /home/n0/gdt/SOFTWARE/GUILE/guile/BUILD/libguile
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /home/gdt/SOFTWARE/GUILE/guile/BUILD
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /home/gdt/SOFTWARE/GUILE/guile/BUILD
----------------------------------------

NetBSD has:

  /usr/include/sys/wait.h:#define WEXITSTATUS(x)  ((int)(((unsigned int)_W_INT(x)) >> 8) & 0xff)

which looks similar enough at first glance.


Next I'll try the tarball in pkgsrc.