Re: [Chicken-hackers] address@hidden: Re: 4.8.0 release?]

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi John,

On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 15:22:35 -0400 John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Felix scripsit:
>
>> If you haven't already: this is the chance to give it a final test
>> before we wrap it up. Regardless of platform, no matter what OS. 
>
> On Cygwin, "make check" reports several problems.  I did exactly
> the same build and test on Linux (Ubuntu Lucid on the CoLinux kernel
> 2.6.33.7-co-0.7.9) with no problems at all.  (I used 4.7.5 (rev 44c2f63)
> as the boot chicken on Cygwin vs. 4.7.5 (rev 0e44970) on Linux.)

If I understand correctly, you tried the git code (since you had to
bootstrap) not the rc tarball, right?  Not that this is a problem (not
at all) -- it's just to understand what you are running.


> I get 23 instances of "[panic] nursery is too small - try higher setting
> using the `-:s' option - execution terminated" in the Cygwin stderr log,
> which I have attached.  I commented out the "set -e" in runtests.sh so
> the whole test suite would run to completion.  There are no such panics
> in the Linux stderr log.
>
> I haven't tested exhaustively, but the first two panics result from
> interpreter runs on apply-test.scm and library-test.scm.  If I add -:s2M
> here and rerun csi with the same arguments, it runs much longer and then
> I get the same error.

I think http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/738 is related.


Best wishes.
Mario
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