On 17 Jun 2011, at 11:26, Andy Wingo wrote: >>>> On Mac OS X 10.6.7, compiled using Xcode Version 3.2.6 64-bit, >>>> i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1, scm_init_guile() gives the >>>> error: >>>> >>>> Failed to get stack base for current thread. >> >>> As you can see we rely on libgc here, and so this is a libgc bug. Can >>> you try a newer libgc, or if that still fails, bring it up on their >>> list? >> >> One must take down the CVS version, and building with threads say by using >> ./configure --enable-threads=posix && make > > Thank you for tracking this down. There should be a new libgc snapshot > very shortly. (One would hope for an actual 7.2 release, but hey.)
Actually, the --enable-threads=posix is unnecessary on Mac OS X (which now is changing name to OS X, it seems), that is, for the CVS version at the time. There is a now a snapshot gc-7.2alpha6.tar.gz from 14-Jun-2011, so that should work - we discussed it in May. Hans