Re: guile 1.8.5 compile segfault

[Neil Jerram]

2008/9/21 tantalum <address@hidden>:
> ok, i did try to compile from the latest snapshot.
> same error, i guess.

OK, I'm sorry about that.  The similar problem on other platforms was
caused by incorrect detection of the stack direction (i.e. whether the
stack grows upwards or downwards), so you could try playing with this
to see if that is your problem too...  I would guess that for your
platform (x86_64) the stack actually grows downwards.  If that is
right, in ./configure, try commenting out the 60 lines following (but
not including) where it says

SCM_I_GSC_STACK_GROWS_UP=0

(This is at line 41264 in today's snapshot).

That should force configure to "discover" that the stack grows downwards.

If that works, we can then investigate why the autodetection program
doesn't work on x86_64.

Regards,
       Neil