Re: gettext-0.14.2 is released

2005-02-27 Thread Kevin Ryde
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - For guile, the code and doc regarding FORMAT in SLIB are not relevant > any more? Oh, well, if it's withdrawn from slib then there's nothing for guile to stay compatible with. > - The guile FORMAT attempts to be an extension of Common Lisp FO

Re: building guile from CVS

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then there are no working libtool releases that work for guile: > - libtool 1.4.x create no libltdl/ directory, > - libtool 1.5.x breaks 'aclocal', see > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2003-04/msg00222.html I think this bug does not affect Gu

Re: building guile from CVS

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have added a call to autopoint after autoreconf. I didn't do this, after all. Using autopoint seems to require a AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION statement or something in configure.in and I don't know which version to specify. I will accept patches, tho...

Re: Fwd: Re: Wrong type argument in procedure variable-set-name-hint!

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Below is an error message that Matt Kraai gets while trying to > start my autogen program. Would anyone have a guess about > what the cause might be? Attached is the script being run > when this failure occurs. Can you give more information about how to

Re: Generalized vs generic

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mikael Djurfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Well, to me that specific meaning---a function that can operate on any >> of a set of types---is just another example of what we have here: a >> vector that can be any of a set of types, so my view is that

Re: primitive-fork hang

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Speaking of check fails, primitive-fork has stopped working for me, > making popen.test (and any actual use of popen) hang. Eg. > > guile -c '(pk (primitive-fork)) (force-output) (sleep 10)' > > It should print 0 in the child and some pid in the pare

Re: goops.c", line 621: warning: integer overflow detected:

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Known issue? 1.6.6 sources: No. What platform is this on? Do you have a fix? -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 ___ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://l

Re: Docs for debugging enhancements

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
"Neil Jerram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've put the docs for some debugging enhancements that I've been > working on up at > http://www.ossau.uklinux.net/guile-debugging/index.html, and would be > most interested in any comments. Excellent! I don't really have time right now to read this ca

Re: doc make-shared-array

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Expanded words about make-shared-array, trying to clarify what linear > means, and adding lots of example usages. Nice, thanks! > [...] and perhaps enclose-array too (if anyone can explain what it > actually does :-). Yeah, strange critters, those enclos

Re: Bug in save-stack?

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Mikael Djurfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I propose we wait for a while. If no-one has objected, we'll remove it > in a week or two. Ok. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 ___ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-de

Re: doc tail calls

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is some words about tail calls, with I don't think are otherwise > described. There is a short section about this in the node "Control Flow". Maybe you could cross-ref from there to your docs. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8

Re: Suggestion for change in the new array interface

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Mikael Djurfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The part after the first sentence indicates that I don't have to call > scm_array_handle_release before throwing the error. Is that so? It is so. Also, you can use scm_c_array_rank to get the array rank as a size_t. (I forgot to document this funct

Re: string port slow output on big string

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I don't know if the read side bits of this change are right. Is > it supposed to update read_pos, read_end and read_buf_size to be the > end of the string, or something? I don't know. Could you try to figure this out yourself? -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F

Re: 1.6 debian bug #291240 bad polar number

2005-02-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like the polar parsing code doesn't cope with #f coming back for > the angle part. Does this change sound right? It seems to do the > trick. Yes, looks right to me! -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _