From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: Building Guix with Guile 2.1 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:03:24 +0200 Message-ID: <874m59fan7.fsf@igalia.com> References: <87fuotl367.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41450) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmkwN-0002f1-CH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:04:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmkwI-0005dn-H2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:04:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87fuotl367.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2016 17:23:18 +0900") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel On Wed 21 Sep 2016 10:23, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > Hello! > > Nalaginrut reported that Guix fails to build with Guile 2.2, which was a > bit of a shame, hence commits e465d9e19087ab150f7e31f21c09e4a147b93b36 > and 9d126aa2b504bb9fad536eac186805ff623e96be. > > Now, the hack in build-aux/compile-all.scm doesn=E2=80=99t quite work wit= h 2.2, > and it was already quite fragile. Which hack? You mean loading modules before compiling? I guess you should load the compiler modules too FWIW, perhaps that's an issue. If there is a nice change we can do to make module-loading thread-safe, let's think about that :) It's probably the biggest thread-safety problem we have in Guile and now would be the right time to fix it. Andy