Guile Strings

[Geert Janssens]

Op vrijdag 30 december 2011 15:18:30 schreef John Ralls: 
> As you can see, it's allocating a string on the heap and returning it, so
> either the strings are already getting freed or we're already leaking them.
> 
> So I went ahead and built swig with the patch from the bug and gave it a
> spin. It did indeed silence the deprecation warnings in guile-1.8.8.
> 
That's already good.

> Unfortunately guile-2.0 appears to have changed the way that extensions are
> loaded, because with guile-2.0 installed make check fails with
> 
> ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
> ;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
> ;;; compiling
> /Volumes/RAID1/Gnucash-Build/Gnucash-svn/src/gnucash-git/src/engine/test/./
> test-create-account.scm ;;; note: source file
> /Volumes/RAID1/Gnucash-Build/Gnucash-svn/src/gnucash-git/src/gnc-module/gnc
> -module.scm ;;;       newer than compiled
> /Users/john/.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-4-2.0/Volumes/RAID1/Gnucash-Build/Gn
> ucash-svn/src/gnucash-git/src/gnc-module/gnc-module.scm.go ;;; compiling
> /Volumes/RAID1/Gnucash-Build/Gnucash-svn/src/gnucash-git/src/gnc-module/gnc
> -module.scm ;;; WARNING: compilation of
> /Volumes/RAID1/Gnucash-Build/Gnucash-svn/src/gnucash-git/src/gnc-module/gnc
> -module.scm failed: ;;; ERROR: no code for module (sw_gnc_module)
> ./test-create-account: line 2: 80147 Bus error               guile -l
> $SRCDIR/test-create-account.scm -c "(exit (run-test))"
> 
> I poked at it briefly, but it couldn't get it to work.

Have you tried with environment variable GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 set ? You may 
need to remove the already autocompiled modules from /Users/john/.cache/guile 
also.

I read somewhere [1] that guile 2 can either precompile modules for 
performance or use the old interpreted mechanism. I never found explicit 
documentation on how to select one or the other, but as I understand it you 
have to disable auto compilation to get the interpreter.

Geert

[1] http://sites.google.com/site/robertharamoto/Home/programming/moving-to-
guile-2