Subject: Re: bug#10684: guile-2.0.5 test failures on powerpc-darwin8

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:02:19 +0100

Hi David,

[email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

>>> Can you try:
>>>
>>>  (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.ISO-8859-1") ;; or some other ISO-8859-1 locale
>>>  (let* ((s (string (integer->char 254)))
>>>         (q (regexp-quote s)))
>>>    (regexp-exec (make-regexp q regexp/extended) s))
>
> [...]
>
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.ISO8859-1")
>> $1 = "en_US.ISO8859-1"
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (let* ((s (string (integer->char 254))) (q
>> (regexp-quote s))) (regexp-exec (make-regexp q regexp/extended) s))
>> ERROR: In procedure make-regexp:
>> ERROR: In procedure make-regexp: empty (sub)expression
>
> This looks like a bug of Darwin’s regcomp that’s likely to be solved by
> using Gnulib’s ‘regex’ module.  If you don’t mind, I’ll provide you
> with a new tarball to test when we’re done with the other issues.

Guile now uses Gnulib’s regex module.  Can you try again with the
tarball from
<http://hydra.nixos.org/job/gnu/guile-2-0/tarball/latest/download-by-type/file/source-dist>?

Thanks,
Ludo’.