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

From: Andy Wingo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 21:39:18 +0200

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