gnu: racket-vm-bc: Add workaround for ppc64le.

This is an attempt to avoid a problem with Racket BC on ppc64 reported
in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57050#19> that was exposed by attempting
to use Racket BC to bootstrap Chez Scheme. Thanks to Matthew Flatt for
the workaround: <https://racket.discourse.group/t/950/30>.

* gnu/packages/racket.scm (racket-vm-bc)[arguments]<#:configure-flags>:
Increase the number of bytes that should be available on the stack for
"safety" when checking for stack overflow.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Philip McGrath 2022-08-27 14:55:53 -04:00 committed by Ludovic Courtès
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@ -412,7 +412,20 @@ (define-public racket-vm-bc
(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments racket-vm-cgc)
((#:configure-flags _ '())
#~(cons "--enable-bconly"
#$racket-vm-common-configure-flags))))
#$(cond
((target-ppc64le?)
;; Attempt to avoid a problem bootstrapping Chez Scheme:
;; see <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57050#19>
;; and <https://racket.discourse.group/t/950/30>.
#~(map
(lambda (flag)
(if (string-prefix? "CPPFLAGS=" flag)
(string-append flag
" -DSTACK_SAFETY_MARGIN=2000000")
flag))
#$racket-vm-common-configure-flags))
(else
racket-vm-common-configure-flags))))))
(synopsis "Racket BC [3M] implementation")
(description "The Racket BC (``before Chez'' or ``bytecode'')
implementation was the default before Racket 8.0. It uses a compiler written