building .deb for guile-1.6.8-latest [with debugging symbol] - test-suite failed

[David Pirotte]

Hi guilers,

        [for info: tried twice to send this message to 'address@hidden' but
        it came back with 'address failed']

In order to produce a useful backtrace for a segfault using guile-gnome0
[I am so close, all -dev and -dbg are now installed] I need to rebuild
guile-1.6.8-latest with debugging symbols [nostrip]:

        apt-get build-dep guile-1.6
        apt-get source guile-1.6
        cd guile-1.6-1.6.8
        export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="debug nostrip noopt"
        debuild

It compiles fine but fails in the test-suite and 'refuses' to create the .deb 
files.
Attached are the config.log, the check-guile.log and below the terminal output.

I am on an hybrid debian distro, as you will understand from the config.log, it 
is
not an official 'etch', but hope I can have your support, debugging symbols are
essential to me, to inform guile-gnome0 developpers

Many Thanks,
David

;; --

...
/usr/bin/make  check-TESTS
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/usr/alto/staff/david/scratch-guile/guile-1.6-1.6.8'
Testing /usr/alto/staff/david/scratch-guile/guile-1.6-1.6.8/pre-inst-guile ...
with 
GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/usr/alto/staff/david/scratch-guile/guile-1.6-1.6.8/test-suite
Running alist.test
Running and-let-star.test
Running bit-operations.test
Running c-api.test
Running chars.test
Running common-list.test
Running environments.test
UNRESOLVED: environments.test: leaf-environments: observe-weak: weak observer 
gets
collected UNRESOLVED: environments.test: leaf-environment based 
eval-environments:
observe-weak: weak observer gets collected Running eval.test
Running exceptions.test
Running filesys.test
Running format.test
Running gc.test
Running getopt-long.test
Running goops.test
Running guardians.test
Running hash.test
Running hooks.test
Running import.test
ERROR: In procedure symbol->string:
ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting SYMBOLP): #:external
FAIL: check-guile
==================
1 of 1 test failed
==================
make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/alto/staff/david/scratch-guile/guile-1.6-1.6.8'
make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/alto/staff/david/scratch-guile/guile-1.6-1.6.8'
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/alto/staff/david/scratch-guile/guile-1.6-1.6.8'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build] Error 2
address@hidden:~/scratch-guile/guile-1.6-1.6.8 6 $

check-guile.log.gz
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config.log.gz
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