Subject: bug#26675: guile-2.2.0 in GNU/Hurd

From: rennes <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 08:32:21 -0500

Hello,

I forwarded the mail about the guile-2.2 bug in Hurd; Andy a guile  
developer comments on the error as follows:

"'Setrlimit' is incapable of limiting your memory usage."

I understand that Hurd is an OS that is under development/experimental  
and has not yet implemented functions/features as mentioned.
Given this situation, can we do something about it?

On 05/02/2017 02:39:18 PM, Andy Wingo wrote:
> On Thu 27 Apr 2017 04:35, rennes <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > We are testing guile-2.2.0 in GNU/Hurd, we have passed the build  
> phase
> > setting "--disable-largefile" parameter to configure script.
> > On the other hand in the check phase, get the error:
> >
> > wrote
> >  
> `/tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.0.drv-0/guile-2.2.0/cache/guile/ccache/2.2-LE-4-3.9/tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.0.drv-0/guile-2.2.0/test-suite/standalone/test-out-of-memory.go'
> > Backtrace:
> >             7 (apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 826f4c0>)
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> >      710:2  6 (call-with-prompt _ _ #<procedure  
> default-prompt-handle?>)
> > In ice-9/eval.scm:
> >      619:8  5 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 828c960>)))
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> >     2309:4  4 (save-module-excursion _)
> >    3816:12  3 (_)
> > In ./test-out-of-memory:
> >       53:0  2 (_)
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> >      834:9  1 (catch _ _ #<procedure 1ba340 at  
> ./test-out-of-memory:?>
> > ?)
> > In unknown file:
> >             0 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A" ("should not be  
> reached") #)
> >
> > ERROR: In procedure scm-error:
> > ERROR: should not be reached
> > FAIL: test-out-of-memory
> 
> This means that your "setrlimit" is incapable of limiting your memory
> usage.  A Hurd bug?
> 
> Andy