Re: Test fail in Guile-1.8.5

[Nick Cripps]

Hi Andy, Neil,

I was originally using 1.8.5 because 1.8.7 is currently in the testing  
rather than stable category in gentoo's portage package tree.

I tried building 1.8.7 on the same debian installation but, had the  
same problem as before. The same test fails.

Using the 1.8.7-r2 ebuild in gentoo, the same test passes. The gentoo  
guile-1.8.7-r2 ebuild includes a patch called guile-1.8.7- 
fix_tests.patch which I assume is responsible. This patch modifies the  
a makefile in the test suite so, hopefully this fixes a bug in  
building or running the tests rather than covering up a genuine  
problem. The patch references gentoo bug 295093 which might provide  
more information.

In the absence of problems, I am going to assume that the author of  
this patch knew what he/she was doing and that all is well.

Thanks,
Nick

On 7 Dec 2010, at 09:34, Andy Wingo wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> On Sat 04 Dec 2010 23:12, Nick Cripps <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > (sudo apt-get install gcc make libtool libgmp3-dev)
> > wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.5.tar.gz
> > tar -xzf guile-1.8.5.tar.gz
> > cd guile-1.8.5
> > ./configure && make && make check
>
> Could you try the same thing on guile 1.8.7, the latest stable  
> release?
> I don't know of any test failures in that release.
>
> Andy
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