SVN 12355 dies on startup

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb at becket.net>:

> Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> writes:
>
>> I don't know what to tell you, I'm afraid.  Nobody else seems to be having
>> trouble with this (or at least nobody else has complained).  I know we
>> have plenty of Debian users so I suspect more it's something with your
>> particular system, not gnucash.
>
> Perhaps you have not received the two messages I sent just yesterday?
> Nobody replied, so perhaps they were lost.

No, I did not get them..  Perhaps you sent them while the server
was down and they're still in some queue somewhere?  They might've
got lost if you sent them between the time I sent out the "server is down"
and the "server is back"...

> This is happening to all Debian users who are using slib-3a2 which
> just became available on Debian for gnucash this week.  (It had been
> delayed for a while until the linkage code in guile was fixed to adapt
> as well.)
>
> It is happening with gnucash 1.8 and with the current gnucash SVN as
> noted, with the same problems.

Well, perhaps the problem with with slib if so much code is breaking?  ;)

> Please see the messages I already sent about this.
>
> I suspect this affects everyone using slib 3a2, and the reason you
> haven't seen it is only that you haven't done the upgrade.
>
> It is certainly possible that this is caused by a bug in the Debian
> packaging of slib 3a2 or the new glue code in guile-1.7.  Still, it is
> a serious problem, and it certainly does affect everyone.

Ok.  Not having a debian system to reproduce the bug makes it a little
harder to me to help track it down.  Unfortunately I'm not the schemer
that the last generation of developers were.   And I don't know what
slib did/does differently in 3a2.

-derek

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