Startup failure

[Klaus Schilling <schilling.klaus@web.de>]

I can't get the freshly compiled 2.0.5 to start up.
The debug version says the following:

pessoa@debian:~/guile-2.0.5/meta$ ./gdb-uninstalled-guile
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This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...Using host libthread_db
library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/pessoa/guile-2.0.5/libguile/.libs/lt-guile
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 11502)]
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 149: 2 [catch #t #<catch-closure 81e8220> ...]
 157: 1 [#<procedure 81b38c0 ()>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 0 [catch-closure]

ERROR: In procedure catch-closure:
ERROR: Throw to key `decoding-error' with args `("scm_from_stringn"
"input locale conversion error" 22 #vu8(47 104 111 109 101 47 112 101
115 115 111 97 47 103
117 105 108 101 45 50 46 48 46 53 47 108 105 98 103 117 105 108 101 47
46 108 105 98 115 47 108 116 45 103 117 105 108 101))'.

Program exited with code 01.

The long character vector is probably decimal ascii for /home/pessoa/guile-2.0.5/libguile/.libs/lt-guile

The checks in the standalone directory also fail, maybe for the same reason.

make  check-TESTS
make[5]: Entering directory
`/home/pessoa/guile-2.0.5/test-suite/standalone'
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 149: 12 [catch #t #<catch-closure 81e8220> ...]
 157: 11 [#<procedure 81b38c0 ()>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 10 [catch-closure]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  63: 9 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 407: 8 [eval # #]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2111: 7 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 81a1060 at
ice-9/boot-9.scm:3646:3 ()>]
3651: 6 [#<procedure 81a1060 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3646:3 ()>]
1380: 5 [%start-stack load-stack ...]
1385: 4 [#<procedure 81fc4c8 ()>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 3 [primitive-load
"/home/pessoa/guile-2.0.5/test-suite/standalone/test-system-cmds"]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 392: 2 [eval # #]
 368: 1 [eval # #]
In unknown file:
   ?: 0 [system* "guile" "-c" "(exit 42)"]

ERROR: In procedure system*:
ERROR: Stack overflow
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 149: 14 [catch #t #<catch-closure 81e8220> ...]
 157: 13 [#<procedure 81b38c0 ()>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 12 [catch-closure]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  63: 11 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 407: 10 [eval # #]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2111: 9 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 81a1060 at
ice-9/boot-9.scm:3646:3 ()>]
3651: 8 [#<procedure 81a1060 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3646:3 ()>]
1380: 7 [%start-stack load-stack ...]
1385: 6 [#<procedure 81fc4c8 ()>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 5 [primitive-load
"/home/pessoa/guile-2.0.5/test-suite/standalone/test-system-cmds"]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 392: 4 [eval # #]
 368: 3 [eval # #]
In unknown file:
   ?: 2 [system* "guile" "-c" "(exit 42)"]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 105: 1 [#<procedure 81a1280 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k
. args)> stack-overflow ...]
  65: 0 [abort-to-prompt catch4 stack-overflow #f "Stack overflow" #f
#f]

ice-9/boot-9.scm:65:2: In procedure abort-to-prompt:
ice-9/boot-9.scm:65:2: Stack overflow

at this point, `make check' hangs indefinitely.


Klaus Schilling