Re: alloca bug

2006-12-12 Thread Jon Wilson
Hi Kevin, Kevin Ryde wrote: Jon Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I need some help understanding what you've said. AC_FUNC_ALLOCA in configure normally uses an alloca.c (libguile/alloca.c) to provide alloca() if the compiler or C library doesn't otherwise have one. Should be unrelat

Re: alloca bug

2006-12-12 Thread Kevin Ryde
Jon Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I need some help understanding what you've said. AC_FUNC_ALLOCA in configure normally uses an alloca.c (libguile/alloca.c) to provide alloca() if the compiler or C library doesn't otherwise have one. Should be unrelated to whatever happens on bsd. Not s

Re: iota from SRFI-1

2006-12-12 Thread Kevin Ryde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > It looks like the iota function from ice-9/boot-9.scm is called. It took a while, but I made a fix for the next release. ___ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user

Re: alloca bug

2006-12-12 Thread Jon Wilson
Hi Neil, Neil Jerram wrote: One thing to be aware of is that the so-called "portable" implementation of alloca() in alloca.c just doesn't work with Guile, because it doesn't really allocate memory on the stack. alloca.c from where? From libc? If so, which libc? Or do you mean some file al

Re: alloca bug

2006-12-12 Thread Neil Jerram
Jon Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > So it looks like the blob in libguile/eval.c (lines 40-56) from the > autoconf manual to define alloca doesn't work on BSD systems. This is > in guile 1.8.1. One thing to be aware of is that the so-called "portable" implementation of alloca() in all

Re: ./guile-config : permission denied

2006-12-12 Thread Jon Wilson
Hi Neil, In another email (perhaps in another thread), Gopi said that the usual unpack, configure, make, make install was what he did. The problem with alloca seems to be a real bug, but if so, as Kevin has said it would properly be a matter for the autoconf people, not us. I'm waiting on ge

Re: debugging scheme module

2006-12-12 Thread Neil Jerram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > You could try the following: > > (read-enable 'debug) > (debug-enable 'debug) I believe that should be: (read-enable 'positions) (debug-enable 'debug) (debug-enable 'backtrace) Regards, Neil _

Re: ./guile-config : permission denied

2006-12-12 Thread Neil Jerram
Gopi kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when i run ./configure in guile-1.8.1 it stops by saying > > checking for guile...guile-config:permission denied > configure:cannot find guile-config;is Guile installed? > > wht to do?I went to /usr/local/bin(i assume that it will check in this > fold