Re: guile 1.9.7 vs. 1.8.7

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Petr Gajdos <address@hidden> writes:

> Information on 
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SLIB-installation.html
>
> doesn't lead to proper slib installation for me. I am using slib3b2
> which seems to be installing well this way with 1.8.7. I don't know if
> this is bug in guile or slib or it is my fault.
>
> The result is:

[...]

>         3 (boot-closure (define base:define define))

Indeed, this expression works with first-class macros in 1.8 but no
longer works in 1.9.  I don’t think 1.9 will ever get support for this
back, so I guess the right solution would be to adapt SLIB’s guile.init.
(This can be done using ‘(cond-expand (guile-2 ...))’.)

Would you like to coordinate with the SLIB maintainer to fix this?

> While guile 1.8.7 is starting less than one second, it takes
> approximatelly 12 seconds to start guile 1.9.7 on the same system,
> even if I run

That’s weird.  Are you sure all the .scm files under module/ got
compiled and that the resulting .go files were installed and are in the
search path?

In my experience Guile 1.9 starts faster than 1.8.

> When I install and run guile first time, I get the following:
>
> laura:/> guile
> ;;; note: autocompilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
> ;;;       or pass the --no-autocompile argument to disable.
> ;;; compiling /usr/share/guile/1.9/ice-9/r5rs.scm
> ;;; compiling /usr/share/guile/1.9/system/base/compile.scm

It’s a sign that these files weren’t compiled when you built Guile.
Please run ‘make’ again in the build tree.  This should create
module/ice-9/r5rs.go, etc., such that these won’t need to be
auto-compiled when Guile starts.

[...]

> Exception during displaying of backtrace: unbound-variable
>
> ERROR: In procedure module-lookup:
> ERROR: Unbound variable: compile-file

*This* is a real bug I guess.  :-)

Thanks for your report,
Ludovic.