urgent bug report/help requested

[Derek Atkins]

tb, thanks VERY MUCH for tracking this down!!!!  Excellent work!

-derek

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

> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>> 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?  :)
>
> Note that if you are using distributed guile, then you can't work with
> slib 3a2 at all, because guile's slib.scm is so out-of-date.
>
> This is why nobody saw this: guile users outside Debian are not using
> slib 3a2 much at all.
>
> The patch is to replace slib:load, in guile.init, with the following
> version (the old version from slib.scm):
>
> (define (slib:load name)
>  (save-module-excursion
>   (lambda ()
>     (set-current-module slib-module)
>     (let ((errinfo (catch 'system-error
> 			   (lambda ()
> 			     (load-from-path name)
> 			     #f)
> 			   (lambda args args))))
>       (if (and errinfo
> 		(catch 'system-error
> 		       (lambda ()
> 			 (load-from-path
> 			  (string-append name ".scm"))
> 			 #f)
> 		       (lambda args args)))
> 	   (apply throw errinfo))))))
>



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