Re: [bug #24554] Pthreads and Stack overflow in guile (reopen bug 20814?) (guile 1.8.5)

[dsmich]

---- Kannan Vijayan <address@hidden> wrote: 
> 
> Follow-up Comment #2, bug #24554 (project guile):
> 
> I have confirmed that the bug is not really a bug.  The debian changelog
> indicates that the --with-threads option was turned off with one of the 1.8.0
> releases of guile due to a bug.  It doesn't seem to have been turned back on
> since then.

I would imagine that --with-threads will not be turned back on until a 1.10.x 
(or 2.0.0 ?) release of Guile.

My limited understanding of the situation (possibly incorrect):  Using 
--without-threads changes the sizes of some data structures (I'm guessing they 
are smaller, with some pthreads stuff #ifdef'ed out), so that code compiled for 
one way will segfault when linked with code compiled for the other way.

As far as just releasing new packages --with-threads, It's just not possible to 
go back an recompile all the currently existing packages on already existing 
systems.

-Dale