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

On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 09:14:04PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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.

Well, we do have choices, and one is to find the actual problem in the
toolchain.  That would be a far better solution!

Cheers
Michael.