guile: guild compile hangs

[Marco Atzeri]

On 28/06/2017 21:18, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 28.06.2017 um 13:58 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
>> On 28/06/2017 01:32, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
>
>>> FWIW, it also hangs when trying to build gdb from GIT sources (in the
>>> gdb/data-directory folder).
>
>>> I see it with "current" of Cygwin, i.e. 2.0.  The last time it worked
>>> was May 20th, apparently.  The first big install after that date, here,
>>> was the big round of Python updae on May 27th.
>
>> potential candidates are:
>> - libgmp
>> - libiconv
>> - libintl
>> - libltdl
>> - libunistring
>> - libgc
>> and cygwin itself
>
> The closest of these in terms of update time relative to the date this
> started to fail for me would be libgc-7.6.0-1 update I installed on May
> 12th.  gdb-ing into the stuck guile process shows about multiple threads
> in a waiting state:
>
> (gdb) info thr
>   Id   Target Id         Frame
>   7    Thread 17376.0x4188 0x00007ffd1add8d71 in ntdll!DbgBreakPoint ()
> from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll
>   6    Thread 17376.0x2bc0 0x00007ffd1add5f04 in
> ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects () from
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll
> * 5    Thread 17376.0x356c 0x00007ffd1add5f04 in
> ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects () from
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll
>   4    Thread 17376.0x1754 0x00007ffd1add5f04 in
> ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects () from
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll
>   3    Thread 17376.0x868 0x00007ffd1add5f04 in
> ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects () from
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll
>   2    Thread 17376.0x2f3c 0x00007ffd1add5474 in ntdll!ZwReadFile ()
> from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll
>   1    Thread 17376.0x3040 0x00007ffd1add5f04 in
> ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects () from
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll
>
> and several of those waits do originate in cyggc-1.dll.
>

reverting to

libgc-devel                             7.2d-2                       OK
libgc1                                  7.2d-2                       OK

seems to unblock guile.

Regards
Marco




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