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

[Hans Aberg]

On 20 May 2011, at 12:11, 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.
> 
> The code in question does this:
> 
>    void
>    scm_init_guile ()
>    {
>      struct GC_stack_base stack_base;
> 
>      if (GC_get_stack_base (&stack_base) == GC_SUCCESS)
>        scm_i_init_thread_for_guile (&stack_base,
>                                     scm_i_default_dynamic_state);
>      else
>        {
>          fprintf (stderr, "Failed to get stack base for current thread.\n");
>          exit (1);
>        }
>    }
> 
> 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?

In what ways do you use it differently in guile-2.0.1? - It works in 
guile-2.0.0.

I was directed to use bdwgc-7_2alpha5-20110107, as gc-7.1 did not work on my 
platform.

Hans