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

On 10/8/21 05:08, Michael Cree wrote:
> I am still of the opinion that we should try in the first instance
> to find the real problem in the toolchain and fix it there.  The bug
> affects packages other than guile and only on SMP systems.

I'm not arguing against fixing this bug. But without building guile
with "--without-threads" we will have a large number of BD-Uninstallable
packages until this bug gets fixed.

And a guile interpreter that crashes on any SMP system.

> When I get my hands on Electro I can boot with a generic kernel
> and build guile-3.0 there which hopefully will overcome the memory
> exhaustion and time-out problems seen on the XP1000s.

That doesn't really help here though as the compiled guile package will
still crash on SMP systems and cause packages like gnul28 to FTBFS
on imago.

Adrian