urgent bug report/help requested

[Derek Atkins]

Any chance you could forward the patch here, too?  I suspect this
issue is larger than just Debian.  Does this mean there will soon
be a 3a3 release of slib?  :)

-derek

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

>
> I'm pleased to report that I located the problem.  The assistance of
> all was appreciated; even the negative cases where people *didn't* see
> problems helped me rapidly narrow down the things to check.  The bug
> is a bug in slib, which is easily patched and I'll submit the change
> to Aubrey and fix Debian today.
>
> What follows is a more detailed description, for those interested, and
> in case it recurs for anyone:
>
> slib's portability across schemes is guaranteed by a series of .init
> files, one for each scheme system out there.  slib comes with these
> .init files.  For a long time however, guile's slib interface has not
> used the slib-provided guile.init file, and instead the guile
> developers took the then-current guile.init file, hacked it, and
> installed it as slib.scm.
>
> Then, each time slib was released, they would play catchup (or not),
> and over time, slib.scm and guile.init drifted further and further
> apart.  With the incorporation of slib-3a2 into Debian, making this
> work was more than it was worth, and we switched to having guile load
> directly the slib guile.init file.  Guile upstream also agreed that
> this was the right long-term course.
>
> Aubrey and the guile people tried to make sure that guile.init
> correctly did the right thing, buc since guile.init had been unused
> for years (essentially unknown to Aubrey!) they missed one.  There is
> crucial module-flummery that must be done inside the slib:load
> function, to make sure that when slib loads something, it lands inside
> the slib module, and not just whatever module happens to have invoked
> require.
>
> The fix is simple, and I'm making it in Debian today and mailing it
> off to Aubrey as well.
>
> Thomas
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