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Guile crashes with libgc 8.0.4

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>
Cc: 36811 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36811: Guix fails to build with libgc 8.0.4
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:39:16 +0100

Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de> skribis:

> On 20.11.19 15:09, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de> skribis:
>>
>>> This failed with the same result:
>>>
>>> /gnu/store/29jhbbg1hf557x8j53f9sxd9imlmf02a-bash-minimal-5.0.7/bin/bash:
>>> line 7: 25584 Aborted                 (core dumped)
>>> XDG_CACHE_HOME=/nowhere host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu srcdir="."
>>> ./pre-inst-env
>>> /gnu/store/xrcl2csd0ps5n0zwj8r7knkxjnz4pfbh-guile-2.2.6/bin/guile -L "."
>>> -L "." --no-auto-compile -s "."/build-aux/compile-all.scm [*.scm]
>>
>> So you built Guile (through Guix) against libgc 8.0.4, and then you
>> tried to use that Guile to build Guix, is that correct?
>
> Yes, that's what I did. So the problem really is with Guile not
> supporting libgc 8.0.4...

I think so, yes.

Can you post your patch to the libgc package, though?  It’s weird that
Guile passed its test suite but then crashes when compiling Guix.

Ludo’.

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