Re: Preparing for a 1.6.8 release.

[Steve Ellcey]

Rob,

> I'd like to release 1.6.8 quite soon.
> 
> Given that, if there are issues that need to be resolved that you
> think I might overlook, please speak up.
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> Rob Browning
> rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
> GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592  F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

Rob,

I was hoping the next release of guile would be buildable on IA64 HP-UX.
The change that is needed is to modify libguile/continuations.c,
libguile/continuations.h, and libguile/gc.c to have ifdefs on IA64
instead of __ia64__.

IA64 is set in libguile/gc_os_dep.c only for IA64 Linux.  __ia64__ is set
by GCC (and other compilers) for both Linux and HP-UX.  But the code
that is under the __ia64__ ifdef is Linux specific and will not compile
on HP-UX.

I made the ifdef changes to guile 1.6.7 to test them and I still had a
bulid problem that I don't understand, the build of libguile seemed to
work fine but the overall libguile make died while making some
documentation:

| cat alist.doc arbiters.doc async.doc backtrace.doc boolean.doc chars.doc 
continuations.doc debug.doc dynl.doc dynwind.doc environments.doc eq.doc 
error.doc eval.doc evalext.doc extensions.doc feature.doc fluids.doc fports.doc 
gc.doc goops.doc gsubr.doc guardians.doc hash.doc hashtab.doc hooks.doc 
init.doc ioext.doc iselect.doc keywords.doc lang.doc list.doc load.doc 
macros.doc mallocs.doc modules.doc numbers.doc objects.doc objprop.doc 
options.doc pairs.doc ports.doc print.doc procprop.doc procs.doc properties.doc 
random.doc rdelim.doc read.doc root.docrw.doc scmsigs.doc script.doc simpos.doc 
smob.doc sort.doc srcprop.doc stackchk.doc stacks.doc stime.doc strings.doc 
strop.doc strorder.doc strports.doc struct.doc symbols.doc throw.doc values.doc 
variable.doc vectors.doc version.doc vports.doc weaks.doc 
symbols-deprecated.doc ramap.doc unif.doc filesys.doc posix.doc net_db.doc 
socket.doc regex-posix.doc | GUILE="/shale/sje/guile/obj/pre-inst-guile" 
/shale/sje/guile/guile-1.6
 .7/scripts/snarf-check-and-output-texi --manual > guile.texi || { rm 
guile.texi; false; }
| ERROR: In procedure variable-set-name-hint!:
| ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 2 (expecting SYMBOLP): #<freed cell 
40050f00; GC missed a reference>
| make[2]: *** [guile.texi] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/shale/sje/guile/obj/libguile'

I don't know if this is a known issue or IA64 specific or what since I
am not that familiar with guile (I mostly just want to build autogen).

Steve Ellcey
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