Re: Bug#995613: guile-2.2: Please build with --without-threads on alpha to fix FTBFS

Hi Michael!

On 10/3/21 20:29, Michael Cree wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 11:33:31AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The issue only appears on SMP systems.  They build correctly on UP
> systems.  This issue affects a number of package builds including
> gnutls and autogen.  I often just manually build them on a UP system
> and upload to the archive, and I could do that with guile-2.2.  As
> to where the issue really is ... I am not sure.

The problem is that even the built guile package will crash on SMP systems
without "--without-threads". So, currently, we have no other choice than
disabling threads if we want guile and others to not FTBFS on imago and
electro and other SMP buildds in the future.

Adrian