From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Building without makeinfo Date: 15 Mar 2002 09:03:40 +0000 Sender: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87heniwvqo.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016214013 14605 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2002 17:40:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Bugs Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([195.204.10.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16lvb8-0002e3-01 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:34:34 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [199.232.76.164]) by hermes.netfonds.no (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2F99CM04254 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:09:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lnhx-0004sP-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 04:09:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.21] helo=s1.uklinux.net) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lnfM-0004pB-00 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 04:06:24 -0500 Original-Received: from portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (IDENT:root@ppp-3a-165.3com.telinco.net [212.159.132.165]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2F96HF31960; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:06:18 GMT Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.uklinux.net (neil@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net [192.168.1.3]) by portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA17131; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:06:49 GMT Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <87heniwvqo.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Errors-To: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:16 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:16 >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer writes: Marius> Conceptually, guile-procedures.txt is dependent on the configuration Marius> of Guile. So, strictly speaking, we can't distribute the 'right' Marius> guile-procedures.txt file. I see - good point. Marius> But, we can probably distribute one that is almost always right, but Marius> we have to be careful when generating it. Marius> I.e. when Guile has been configured --without-threads, Marius> guile-procedures.txt wont contain the docs for the threading Marius> functions. Marius> So, when we have a good way to create a default guile-procedures.txt, Marius> then I'd say we should distribute it. Agreed. This reminds me of something else. I believe we were going to write some instructions to distributors on how to build a generic Guile for including in a distribution. Has that been done yet? (FWIW, I would specify `--with-threads'.) Neil _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile