Re: Guile 2.0.1: scm_init_guile() broken on Mac OS X 10.6.7

[Hans Aberg]

On 17 Jun 2011, at 11:26, Andy Wingo wrote:

>>>> On Mac OS X 10.6.7, compiled using Xcode Version 3.2.6 64-bit,
>>>> i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1, scm_init_guile() gives the
>>>> error:
>>>> 
>>>> Failed to get stack base for current thread.
>> 
>>> As you can see we rely on libgc here, and so this is a libgc bug.  Can
>>> you try a newer libgc, or if that still fails, bring it up on their
>>> list?
>> 
>> One must take down the CVS version, and building with threads say by using
>>  ./configure --enable-threads=posix && make
> 
> Thank you for tracking this down.  There should be a new libgc snapshot
> very shortly.  (One would hope for an actual 7.2 release, but hey.)

Actually, the --enable-threads=posix is unnecessary on Mac OS X (which now is 
changing name to OS X, it seems), that is, for the CVS version at the time. 
There is a now a snapshot gc-7.2alpha6.tar.gz from 14-Jun-2011, so that should 
work - we discussed it in May.

Hans