Re: low-hanging SRFI fruit (SRFI-98)

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > You should be able to remove the ref entirely with "git push :master" > then "git push master" -- as least the last time I mucked with these > things that's how it worked. Ah cool, I'll try to remember that for the future. > BUT... I wouldn't bother, really. In the meantime

Re: low-hanging SRFI fruit (SRFI-98)

2009-06-04 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Neil, On Thu 04 Jun 2009 00:08, Neil Jerram writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> Julian Graham writes: >> >>> Hi Ludovic, >>> You can't undo it.  :-) >>> >>> But surely the "owner" of the Savannah repository can remove an >>> offending commit from the history, no? >> >> I thought so, yes

Re: master build issue

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram writes: > I'm also wondering if libtool v1.5.26 is a factor (as against v2.2) > - so now trying out libtool 2.2 from Debian testing. Yes, that seems to do the trick. So we require libtool 2.2 now... I guess that's OK, given that it's in Debian testing. (I'll make an appropriate up

Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, syncase-in-boot-9, updated. e3c5df539640a36eb1493f581087d54a4714f337

2009-06-04 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Wed 03 Jun 2009 00:35, Neil Jerram writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > * module/ice-9/boot-9.scm: Remove #' read-hash extension, which actually didn't do anything at all. It's been there since 1997, but no Guile code I've ever seen uses it, and it conflict

Re: master build issue

2009-06-04 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 04 Jun 2009 03:04, Neil Jerram writes: > I built and installed libunistring this evening, to /usr/local, and > now ./configure is failing for me at: > > checking size of float... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof > (float) I had this at one point today, as well, when I had installed

Re: new dependency?

2009-06-04 Thread Greg Troxel
writes: > Neil Jerram wrote: >> Greg Troxel writes: >> >> > my autobuild choked with: >> > >> > configure: error: GNU libunistring is required, please install it. >> > >> > and I don't recall seeing any discussion about this. >> >> Hi Greg, >> >> It was mentioned here: >> http://art

Re: 1.8 branch test failure

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram writes: > Greg Troxel writes: > >> Git tree... release_1-8-6-53-g66f3b6c >> GCC version... gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20080704 prerelease (NetBSD nb1 20080202) >> Differences: >> End differnces. >> >> [snip] >> >> FAIL: popen.test: open-input-pipe: open-input-pipe process gets >> (current-inpu

Re: master build issue

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: > On Thu 04 Jun 2009 03:04, Neil Jerram writes: > >> I built and installed libunistring this evening, to /usr/local, and >> now ./configure is failing for me at: >> >> checking size of float... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof >> (float) > > I had this at one point toda

Re: master build issue

2009-06-04 Thread Greg Troxel
Neil Jerram writes: > configure:52553: ccache gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -L/usr/local/lib > -lunistring -R/usr/local/lib -lgmp -lcrypt -lm -lltdl >&5 > gcc: unrecognized option '-R/usr/local/lib' > > My GCC is version 4.3.2, so pretty recent. > > Ludo, Andy, I'm wondering why this isn

Re: master build issue

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> While we're complaining about the build :-) It seems we require gperf >> now. Is that correct? > > That's news to me. Where have you seen that? OK, I've seen it now too; used to generate iconv_open-*.h from iconv_open-*.gperf. Brought in implicitl

Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, syncase-in-boot-9, updated. e3c5df539640a36eb1493f581087d54a4714f337

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo writes: >> (1) Doesn't #'x => (syntax x) need to apply only in the lexical RHS of >> a syntax-case syntax transformer? Perhaps then we could implement >> this meaning of #'x only in this limited scope, and retain the older >> meaning in other scopes? > > Yes, although you can't determ

preserving timestamps on installation

2009-06-04 Thread Andy Wingo
Hey folks, Development Guile support compilation of Scheme files, finally. But the deal is that it will load the source file instead if the mtimes on the Scheme and compiled files differ. Where automake comes in is that installing a file touches its mtime, always, not preserving the mtime of the

Re: 1.8 branch test failure

2009-06-04 Thread Barry Fishman
Neil Jerram writes: > Greg Troxel writes: > >> Git tree... release_1-8-6-53-g66f3b6c >> GCC version... gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20080704 prerelease (NetBSD nb1 20080202) >> Differences: >> End differnces. >> >> [snip] >> >> FAIL: popen.test: open-input-pipe: open-input-pipe process gets >> (current-inpu

Re: master build issue

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Gran
> I downloaded it and built on NetBSD/i386 5.0 with > --prefix=/usr/y0/libunistring, and it seems to build fine with no > warnings that I noticed as it scrolled by. Looking at the package, it > looks quite well baked. Despite my initial negative reaction to new > dependencies, this package seems