Ah, I did not get that quick (use ports) workaround. That'll do!

Thanks,
K.


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Peter Bex <peter....@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Kristian Lein-Mathisen wrote:
> > Thanks so much for looking into this, and fixing it, Peter! This is
> > probably the only patch on chicken-hackers I'll ever understand :) I
> should
> > have thought about using DEBUGBUILD myself. I'll see if I can be of more
> > use next time!
>
> Don't worry about it, I always have a debug build lying around :)
>
> > We are depending on this fix for our systems in prod. Will there be a new
> > 4.9.0.2 tarball or do we have to build from git for now? What's usually
> the
> > process in a case like this?
>
> Like I said in my mail this should go into stability, from which point
> releases are periodically made.  Christian indeed cherry-picked it into
> that branch, so it's sitting there waiting for a release.
>
> I don't think this change is so important that it warrants publishing a
> new release; I'd prefer to have a few more bugfixes accumulate in the
> branch.  You can always choose to build from git from the stability
> branch, though.  That way you don't risk building a CHICKEN with any
> new unknown bugs.
>
> Have you seen my comment about the known workaround?  You can just
> (require-library ports) or (use ports) in your code (even if you're not
> using the ports unit).  This will fix the problem by ensuring that the
> ports unit is loaded before running the program.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
> --
> http://www.more-magic.net
>
_______________________________________________
Chicken-hackers mailing list
Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers

Reply via email to