bug#10519: guile and (mini-)gmp

2012-01-16 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Niels, thanks for looking into this! ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes: > 2. The next problem is maybe more a nuisance than a real problem. I'm >looking at scm_i_big2dbl, in numbers.c. > >I notice this code doesn't currently use mpz_get_d (comment says >that's because gmp-4

bug#10519: guile and (mini-)gmp

2012-01-16 Thread Niels Möller
Mark H Weaver writes: > Don't worry about this. I have a patch set that (among other things) > reimplements scm_i_big2dbl in a much more robust way, with proper > rounding, and without using such low-level GMP accessors. I posted this > patch set to guile-devel on 7 Oct, "[PATCH] Improvements t

bug#10491: unread-char and eof

2012-01-16 Thread Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > > Suggestions welcome.  Personally I find the documentation sufficiently > clear on the usage of unread-char only accepting a character value and > equally clear that an eof value is not a character. I totally agree. However, I think the do

bug#10519: guile and (mini-)gmp

2012-01-16 Thread Mark H Weaver
ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Don't worry about this. I have a patch set that (among other things) >> reimplements scm_i_big2dbl in a much more robust way, with proper >> rounding, and without using such low-level GMP accessors. I posted this >> patch

bug#10522: Patch: Improve optional variable and keyword notation in manual

2012-01-16 Thread Bake Timmons
Attached is a patch to improve optional variable and keyword notation of Texinfo function definitions. While this patch fixes blatant errors, it's not particularly interesting, except for how we improve some keyword notation in the manual. It is useful and natural to refer to the associated value

bug#10520: [platform-testers] Guile 2.0.4 release imminent

2012-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
retitle 2.0.3+ portability issues thanks Hi Bruno, Thanks for the quick and detailed report! Bruno Haible skribis: [...] > How about changing that section to mention > 1) that pkg-config ought to be installed before libffi and libgc? > 2) that usually setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH

bug#10520: [platform-testers] Guile 2.0.4 release imminent

2012-01-16 Thread Bruno Haible
PS: More portability problems: 13) On Solaris 11/x86_64, "make check" hangs: ... Running texinfo.string-utils.test Running texinfo.test Running threads.test The process guile-2.0.3.152-c5f6c2/libguile/.libs/guile --debug --no-auto-compile -e main -s guile-2.0.3.152-c5f6c2/test-suite/guile-test

bug#10520: [platform-testers] Guile 2.0.4 release imminent

2012-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Bruno Haible skribis: > 11) On Solaris 11, "make check" gives 1 test failure: > > gmake[5]: Entering directory > `/home/bruno/multibuild-1614/solaris11x8632/guile-2.0.3.152-c5f6c2/test-suite/standalone' > PASS: test-system-cmds > PASS: test-bad-identifiers > PASS: test-require-extension > usage:

bug#10520: [platform-testers] Guile 2.0.4 release imminent

2012-01-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ludo, > Thanks for the quick and detailed report! Another set of platforms is being tested right now. -- About configuration of the dependencies: > > How about changing that section to mention > > 1) that pkg-config ought to be ins

bug#10491: unread-char and eof

2012-01-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 17 January 2012 02:57, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué wrote: > > I totally agree. However, I think the documentation should help any > kind of user level. The documentation also does not say of any kind of > error reported by the function. Nor are type errors mentioned by most other functions, they ar