Re: installing older guile version

2017-11-13 Thread Matt Wette
> On Nov 12, 2017, at 11:48 PM, Christian Alpen wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I have a problem installing an older guile-version. If you have multiple versions around, I recommend using configure option `--program-suffix=18'. Matt

Re: installing older guile version

2017-11-13 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-11-13 8:48 GMT+01:00 Christian Alpen : > Hi everybody, > > I have a problem installing an older guile-version. > > I wanted to install a development-version of lilypond, which quits with > following error: > > *WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs or files: guile-2.0 > < 1.9.

Re: installing older guile version

2017-11-13 Thread David Kastrup
Ralf Mattes writes: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:00:11PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> > So  I got me an older version guile-1.7.91 (as I couldn't find any >> > 1.8, this was the nearest to <1.9.0). >> >> 1.8.8 is the latest. Current compilers and Texinfo might require a few >> patches. I thi

Re: [PATCH] Bump version to 2.2.2.

2017-11-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Vong skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Hello! >> >> Alex Vong skribis: >> >>> Tom Jakubowski writes: >>> Unsure if this is the right list; if it's the wrong one, then I'm sorry! >>> Thanks for your report, I think you are on the right list! >> >> I think Andy

Re: installing older guile version

2017-11-13 Thread Ralf Mattes
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:00:11PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > > So  I got me an older version guile-1.7.91 (as I couldn't find any > > 1.8, this was the nearest to <1.9.0). > > 1.8.8 is the latest. Current compilers and Texinfo might require a few > patches. I think I remember that someone on

Re: [PATCH] Bump version to 2.2.2.

2017-11-13 Thread Alex Vong
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello! > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> Tom Jakubowski writes: >> >>> Unsure if this is the right list; if it's the wrong one, then I'm sorry! >>> >> Thanks for your report, I think you are on the right list! > > I think Andy, who made the release, has an unpu

Re: installing older guile version

2017-11-13 Thread David Kastrup
Christian Alpen writes: > Hi everybody, > > I have a problem installing an older guile-version. > > I wanted to install a development-version of lilypond, which quits > with following error: > > *WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs or files:  > guile-2.0 < 1.9.0 (installed: 2.0.

installing older guile version

2017-11-13 Thread Christian Alpen
Hi everybody, I have a problem installing an older guile-version. I wanted to install a development-version of lilypond, which quits with following error: *WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs or files:  guile-2.0 < 1.9.0 (installed: 2.0.13) ERROR: Please install required

Re: dynamic-ffi: Responsibility for freeing returned pointers?

2017-11-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Tom, Tom Jakubowski skribis: > Say I have a C function like this: > > char *tom_hello() { > return strdup("hello!"); > } > > And, in Guile land, I make a procedure c-tom-hello out of it using > dynamic-ffi and wrap it in a function that returns a Scheme string: > > (define exe (dynamic-link

Re: [PATCH] Bump version to 2.2.2.

2017-11-13 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 13 Nov 2017 12:01, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello! > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> Tom Jakubowski writes: >> >>> Unsure if this is the right list; if it's the wrong one, then I'm sorry! >>> >> Thanks for your report, I think you are on the right list! > > I think Andy, who mad

Re: [PATCH] Bump version to 2.2.2.

2017-11-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Alex Vong skribis: > Tom Jakubowski writes: > >> Unsure if this is the right list; if it's the wrong one, then I'm sorry! >> > Thanks for your report, I think you are on the right list! I think Andy, who made the release, has an unpushed patch to the web site that updates the version nu