Paul Emsley wrote:
> Dear Guile users, 
> 
> I have a problem compiling/running 1.8.0:
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=$pfx
> $ make
> $ make install
> $ cd $pfx/bin
> �$ ./guile
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>      ...
>    ?: 123  [list apply ...
>    ?: 124*  [list lambda (syntmp-dummy-3 syntmp-name-4 syntmp-rules-5) ...
>    ?: 125*   [syntmp-chi-151 #(syntax-object # #) (# # # # ...) ...
>    ?: 126*    [syntmp-make-binding-wrap-132 (# # #) ("i" "i" "i") (())]
>    ?: 127     (if (null? syntmp-ids-949) syntmp-w-951 ...)
>    ?: 128     [cons () ...
>    ?: 129*     [cons ...
>    ?: 130*      (let* ((syntmp-labelvec-952 #)) (let* (#) (let # #)))
>    ?: 131       (let* ((syntmp-n-953 #)) (let (# #) (begin # #)))
>           ...
>    ?: 132       (begin # #)
>    ?: 133*      [syntmp-f-956 (# # #) 0]
>    ?: 134       (if (not #) (call-with-values # #))
>           ...
>    ?: 135       [call-with-values #<procedure #f ()> #<procedure #f #>]
>    ?: 136       (@call-with-values (producer consumer))
>    ?: 137*      [#<procedure #f ()>]
>    ?: 138*      [syntmp-id-sym-name&marks-116 #(syntax-object dummy #) (())]
>    ?: 139       (if (syntmp-syntax-object?-101 syntmp-x-980) (values # #) ...)
>    ?: 140*      [syntmp-syntax-object?-101 #(syntax-object dummy (# # # shift .. .))]
>    ?: 141       (and (vector? syntmp-x-1008) (= (vector-length syntmp-x-1008) 3)  ...)
>    ?: 142*      (vector? syntmp-x-1008)
> 
> <unnamed port>: In expression (vector? syntmp-x-1008):
> <unnamed port>: Stack overflow
> 
> This happens on all the computers I've tried to compile 1.8.0 on.
> Can you help?

Like someone pointed out to me a couple of weeks ago on another list,
compiling with optimizations is necessary for guile to work correctly. So:

$ ./configure --prefix=$pfx CFLAGS=-O2

That should do it.

Is this documented somewhere? If not, shouldn't it be? And if it is,
shouldn't it be documented more prominently, like in INSTALL? Or, since
it's a requirement for guile working correctly, could it even be a
standard CFLAGS in configure?

   /c