[racket-dev] build hang on s390x

From: David Bremner (bremner at debian.org)
Date: Mon Feb 27 20:06:02 EST 2012

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:46:43 -0700, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> My guess is that something is going wrong with the GC's write barrier.
> 
> In "src/racket/gc2/newgc.c" around line 2677, if you change 1 to 0 in
> 
>   newgc->generations_available = 1;
> 
> does the build make further progress?

It doesn't seem to help; the build get stuck in the same place. I
suppose this is the first time it tries to run racket3m since running
"gdb ./racket3m" I get stuck in the same loop that James mentions.

d

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