On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 09:14:04PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/3/21 20:29, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 11:33:31AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Both guile-2.2 and guile-3.0 FTBFS on alpha when built with thread > >> support. Passing --without-threads to configure disables thread > >> support and fixes the build. > > > > The issue only appears on SMP systems. They build correctly on UP > > systems. This issue affects a number of package builds including > > gnutls and autogen. I often just manually build them on a UP system > > and upload to the archive, and I could do that with guile-2.2. As > > to where the issue really is ... I am not sure. > > The problem is that even the built guile package will crash on SMP systems > without "--without-threads". So, currently, we have no other choice than > disabling threads if we want guile and others to not FTBFS on imago and > electro and other SMP buildds in the future.
Well, we do have choices, and one is to find the actual problem in the toolchain. That would be a far better solution! Cheers Michael.