Re: Building Guix with Guile 2.1

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed 21 Sep 2016 10:23, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Nalaginrut reported that Guix fails to build with Guile 2.2, which was a
>> bit of a shame, hence commits e465d9e19087ab150f7e31f21c09e4a147b93b36
>> and 9d126aa2b504bb9fad536eac186805ff623e96be.
>>
>> Now, the hack in build-aux/compile-all.scm doesn’t quite work with 2.2,
>> and it was already quite fragile.
>
> Which hack?  You mean loading modules before compiling?  I guess you
> should load the compiler modules too FWIW, perhaps that's an issue.
>
> If there is a nice change we can do to make module-loading thread-safe,
> let's think about that :)  It's probably the biggest thread-safety
> problem we have in Guile and now would be the right time to fix it.

I agree this is the right thing to do.

My guess is that this would have to be approached in C, to avoid the fat
mutex overhead.  But hmm, I dunno exactly what this entails!

Ludo’.