Re: Bug#995614: guile-3.0: Please build with --without-threads on alpha to fix FTBFS

Hi Rob!

On 10/3/21 20:27, Rob Browning wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Both guile-2.2 and guile-3.0 FTBFS on alpha when built with thread
>> support. Passing --without-threads to configure disables thread
>> support and fixes the build.
> 
> Hmm, I'm not certain we can do this unless we've never had a successful
> build on the relevant platforms.  At least in the past, disabling
> threads changed the library ABI in a backward incompatible way.

Without --without-threads, guile would not build on SMP systems and even
the built package would crash on SMP systems.

If disabling threads would break the ABI, we could just rebuild the affected
reverse dependencies on the builds using the normal binNMU method.

I don't think we have any other choice at the moment.

Adrian