Re: Parts of the test-suite hanging forever

[Neil Jerram]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Things do appear to work correctly with libgc 7.2alpha5 (or CVS).
> Perhaps given that master has moved away from pthread redirection, we
> should simply require libgc 7.2 for Guile 2.2.

Yes, absolutely.  Speaking as a user :-), I would not mind at all being
told "you must use version X.Y of libgc because it's the only one we
support".  Based on the number and complexity of GC-related issues over
the last few months, and the level on continuing change in libgc, I
think it could be a fruitless and losing battle to try to support
multiple libgc versions - and at the very least it's a lot of extra
effort.

(And IMO it's also fine for you to arbitrarily advance the X.Y, when
there's a new libgc release with a fix or feature that Guile needs.)

Regards,
        Neil