Michael Käppler <xmichae...@web.de> writes: > Am 18.01.2020 um 09:36 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Bric <b...@flight.us> writes: >> >>> I was asking about the latter: the older versions of guile are not >>> compiling. >>> >>> Has anyone run into this? and solved it? >> Take the tip of the branch_release-1-8 branch in the Guile repository. >> Thien-Thi Nguyen has kept that compilable even though no official >> release is. >> > This is interesting. A couple of hours ago I had the discussion with > Federico > whether there is a reason for compiling guile in LilyDev postinstall > based on branch_release-1-8 rather > than just taking guile-1.8.8.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org. > Are the fixes on top of the guile-1.8.8 release really important for us?
We probably still need to configure using --disable-error-on-warning , and without those changes, building will fail at least when trying to build the documentation with a newer Texinfo version. -- David Kastrup
