Re: ERROR: Stack overflow in guile-1.8.7

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo" <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm on an AMD64 linux system. I succesfully compiled and installed
> guile-1.8.7, but when I try to run guile I get the:
> ERROR: Stack overflow

Did you pass particular CFLAGS to the build system?  Normally the
default stack limit works well when compiling with ‘-O2’.

> error message, and I can't reach the repl. "make check" however passes
> smoothly. I read about this:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2009-03/msg00114.html
> and yes, for me too setting the stack limit to 60'000 in eval.c solves
> the issue. How can I circumvent/solve this problem without resorting
> to patching the sources?

Putting ‘(debug-set! stack 60000)’ in ~/.guile should solve it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.