From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: About Guile crypto support Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:46:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1360579612.97436.YahooMailNeo@web120404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1359896146.2754.19.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> <871ucvof60.fsf@gnu.org> <1360032192.2754.61.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> <87mwvisqwj.fsf@gnu.org> <878v6yojxg.fsf@gnu.org> <87sj55bjxz.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwvdwhcs.fsf@pobox.com> Reply-To: Mike Gran NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360579619 18078 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2013 10:46:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:46:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "guile-devel@gnu.org" To: Andy Wingo , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 11:47:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U4qur-0000ah-GQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; 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and Fre= eBSD hasn't built successfully in a year or so on 2.0)=0A=0AGuile has some = talented hackers, and maybe they could write a better=0Adynamic linker than= libtool, but, history suggests that Guile might=0Alose interest in maintai= ning such code for non-GNU systems.=0A=0A-Mike