Re: [Chicken-announce] [Chicken-users] CHICKEN 4.10.0 release candidate 4 available

[Sven Hartrumpf]

Hi Tim.

Tim wrote:
> many arguments supported.
> testing 'apply' with 0..2048 (maximum apply argument count)...
> If this segfaults on x86-64, try updating GCC (4.5 has a code-generation bug):
> invoking directly with 0..50...
> invoking directly with 1998..2048 (maximum interpreted direct argument 
> count)...
> testing 'apply' can detect calls of too many arguments...
> testing direct invocation can detect calls of too many arguments...
> /home/tim/chicken-test/chicken-4.10.0rc4/tests/../chicken 'apply-test.scm' 
> -output-file 'a.c' -types ../types.db -ignore-repository -verbose 
> -include-path /home/tim/chicken-test/chicken-4.10.0rc4/tests/..
> 'gcc' 'a.c' -o 'a.o' -c  -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -DHAVE_CHICKEN_CONFIG_H 
> -DC_ENABLE_PTABLES -Os -fomit-frame-pointer 
> -I/home/tim/chicken-test/chicken-4.10.0rc4/tests/.. 
> -I"/home/tim/chicken-test//include/chicken"
> 
> The [panic] line (marked with **** in front) might be a possible failed test? 
> Furthermore, as you can see, the system does progress a bit but hangs at the 
> last line. I have let it run for 2 hours, and it did not get past this GCC 
> compiling step. Either this Atom system is too weak to run these test in a 
> timely fashion, or something else is going wrong...

This is a known problem with newer GCC versions.
Your 2nd machine will need 4 hours or more :-(

Ciao
Sven