Re: Error when trying to compile Guile 2.0 on OS X 10.6 using homebrew

[Hans Aberg]

On 4 May 2011, at 22:44, Brett Hoerner wrote:

> For what it's worth, 2.0.1 seems to compile fine using XCode 4's GCC chain.

It comes and goes with the version.

> I opened a bug with Apple but have since closed it.

So you should not have closed...

> 
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Hans Aberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 27 Apr 2011, at 02:58, Brett Hoerner wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for your quick reply. For future Google searches, the bug is
>>> only in the GCC included with XCode 4. Downgrading to XCode 3 did the
>>> trick for now. I'm going to report the bug to Apple shortly.
>> 
>> Xcode 4 doesn't use a GCC derivation, but is based on LLVM/Clang.
>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On Tue 26 Apr 2011 19:35, Brett Hoerner <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> cc1(94600) malloc: *** error for object 0x14089b9f8: incorrect
>>>>> checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being
>>>>> freed.
>>>>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>>>> vm-engine.c: In function 'vm_debug_engine':
>>>>> vm-engine.c:38: internal compiler error: Abort trap
>>>>> Please submit a full bug report,
>>>>> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
>>>>> See <URL:http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter> for instructions.
>>>> 
>>>> This is an Apple compiler bug.  Please take it up with them.  I am sorry
>>>> that we cannot be of more assistance here; perhaps another Apple user
>>>> has a workaround.
>> 
>> This bug is though similar to the one I mentioned here and reported to Apple 
>> for some Guile 1.9 version.

...as you can see, it is an Apple compiler bug. It must be fixed, by them.

Hans