Re: guile 3 update, june 2018 edition

[dsmich]

Greetings Andy!

---- Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> Just wanted to give an update on Guile 3 developments.  Last note was
> here:
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-04/msg00004.html
> 
> The news is that the VM has been completely converted over to call out
> to the Guile runtime through an "intrinsics" vtable.  For some
> intrinsics, the compiler will emit specialized call-intrinsic opcodes.
> (There's one of these opcodes for each intrinsic function type.)  For
> others that are a bit more specialized, like the intrinsic used in
> call-with-prompt, the VM calls out directly to the intrinsic.

Very exciting!

However, master is not building for me. :(

  git clean -dxf; ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make -j5

gives me

  SNARF  atomic.x
  SNARF  backtrace.x
  SNARF  boolean.x
In file included from atomic.c:29:0:
extensions.h:26:30: fatal error: libguile/libpath.h: No such file or directory
 #include "libguile/libpath.h"
                              ^
compilation terminated.
Makefile:3893: recipe for target 'atomic.x' failed
make[2]: *** [atomic.x] Error 1



Maybe some dependency tuning is needed?

 

So.  Building without -j :

  make clean; make

gives gives a segfault when generating the docs


  SNARF  regex-posix.doc
  GEN      guile-procedures.texi
Uncaught exception:
Backtrace:
/bin/bash: line 1: 13428 Broken pipe             cat alist.doc array-handle.doc 
array-map.doc arrays.doc async.doc atomic.doc backtrace.doc boolean.doc 
bitvectors.doc bytevectors.doc chars.doc control.doc continuations.doc 
debug.doc deprecated.doc deprecation.doc dynl.doc dynwind.doc eq.doc error.doc 
eval.doc evalext.doc expand.doc extensions.doc fdes-finalizers.doc feature.doc 
filesys.doc fluids.doc foreign.doc fports.doc gc-malloc.doc gc.doc gettext.doc 
generalized-arrays.doc generalized-vectors.doc goops.doc gsubr.doc 
guardians.doc hash.doc hashtab.doc hooks.doc i18n.doc init.doc ioext.doc 
keywords.doc list.doc load.doc macros.doc mallocs.doc memoize.doc modules.doc 
numbers.doc objprop.doc options.doc pairs.doc ports.doc print.doc procprop.doc 
procs.doc promises.doc r6rs-ports.doc random.doc rdelim.doc read.doc rw.doc 
scmsigs.doc script.doc simpos.doc smob.doc sort.doc srcprop.doc srfi-1.doc 
srfi-4.doc srfi-13.doc srfi-14.doc srfi-60.doc stackchk.doc stacks.doc 
stime.doc strings.doc strorder.doc strports.doc struct.doc symbols.doc 
syntax.doc threads.doc throw.doc trees.doc unicode.doc uniform.doc values.doc 
variable.doc vectors.doc version.doc vports.doc weak-set.doc weak-table.doc 
weak-vector.doc dynl.doc posix.doc net_db.doc socket.doc regex-posix.doc
     13429 Segmentation fault      | GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ../meta/build-env 
guild snarf-check-and-output-texi > guile-procedures.texi
Makefile:3910: recipe for target 'guile-procedures.texi' failed

This is

$ git describe
v2.2.2-504-gb5dcdf2e2

And gcc is
$ gcc --version
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516

On an up to date Debian 9.4 system:
$ uname -a
Linux debmetrix 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 
GNU/Linux


-Dale