Trouble building guile 1.8.4 (segfault in gen-scmconfig)

[Jason Evans]

Eric Schuele wrote:
> On 04/28/2008 16:31, Jason Evans wrote:
>> What is liblthread?  
> 
> linuxthreads, as Mezz mentioned.
> 
>> It looks to be interacting badly with malloc.
> 
> ok.  any thoughts as to why, or how to fix it?

Most likely, the linuxthreads port is allocating memory within one of 
the pthread_mutex-related functions (pthread_mutex_init()?), which is 
causing infinite recursion.  The easy solution is to stop using 
linuxthreads.  The hard solution is to modify linuxthreads, possibly by 
implementing _pthread_mutex_init_calloc_cb(), in order to avoid 
recursion during initialization of malloc's internal mutexes.

Jason