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: Porting GNU Projects - Guile Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:25:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <157104.97661.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <24721426.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248895997 7136 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2009 19:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:33:17 +0000 (UTC) To: bornlibra23 , Guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 29 21:33:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWEth-00040F-UP for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:33:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWEtg-0002c1-UB for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWEmg-00081h-Li for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWEma-0007sJ-NO for Guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38598 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWEma-0007s2-GQ for Guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: from web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.91.165]:21336) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWEma-0005RJ-Ab for Guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 97698 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Jul 2009 19:25:47 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1248895547; bh=JZy7OQ6WJdKIp1G9SY5a2u1pvKKrfiM/vJMZRmML9MA=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=xuarfguiiLI3D3IdQlrmqfMxFaG8StTtxYTcztIrbwaas1ZCp3Mdpw1BhyzzyFLB/XAHhCvFM/pNyGQt04YwFb7JNtVWM7xhfwmgvUMuqkiGeYdY5OWurWhMUh4C7nSQmCo/woXbH1GKx+33ePiyMJ1CZQWxuwwxfLARdABvMCI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=mLDzS5+jSRiaT2mwo+zWWWfTWxHrmvSpOzrqXwUsLi0tCsILlMrvwex5RIXf7Qt2UMsebWYjVmdhqNiDU24fIEg2/dI/P8G9Rlnlz5E9FbLYpEpspEvsExxFQlyCd9xg/YigQU88ngrhmBr+MsIREJU4mE10alzKAWtfoDl6eYs=; X-YMail-OSG: 2WOSOAMVM1lN2UC.od5y3p0NGhYHP43ArwSxwxa_jYvb6eaATlZzXsQBQuf.nH_gKuVt0wO5G0O1S6wknjIUbU8VpuX1D0BOK2XkzMs8bAPdLskN0Iy9fWfPKW1jl3I7b_EBUGRzBDgZYn0G92hkd3XJ8ibVoykn2eR0hSuB8BdxMkKPyF2q29pek6JPkZEcZOB46bupnFcdNJp24Rv3aqo6f81s9u8fZe7IHH4Qw0Kwga8xGoE.pFt3fvFxCtOmXhFd2QOrcjIxuILbV_TJDiJiXvHQMIi3JAiuCUeV0tmyMmBEt5qTM7ds35F12uC.425ef_1oAkNRYgeTnyAwzYYrPP9xaZ5Z Original-Received: from [207.8.91.2] by web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:25:46 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1358.22 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.15 In-Reply-To: <24721426.post@talk.nabble.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8985 Archived-At: > From: bornlibra23 =0A> =0A> Hello People=0A> I am try= ing to port various GNU products to Stratus OpenVOS platform=0A> including = the guile project. However I am stuck currently for the lack of=0A> wide & = multibyte character support. Can somebody guide me to an=0A> implementation= of the same that I can port first. The glibc is also proving=0A> a monster= to port for various reasons. I have tried to build the wide=0A> character = support of glibc separately but it didnt workout. Can somebody=0A> isolate = the code & guide me in implementing it on VOS? This is proving to be=0A> a = major blocker. Please help=0A> Thanks=0A> bornlibra23=0A=0AHi-=0A=0AI'm a l= ittle unclear on what you need first.=A0 It is=0A=0A1. Guile doesn't do mul= tibyte characters.=0A=0Aor=0A=0A2. You are having problems building GNU pro= grams in general because it is=0Ahard to get glibc's multibyte characters t= o work.=0A=0AIf it is the former (#1) case, it is true that Guile doesn't d= o multi-byte.=0AThere is an experimental version of Guile in the Git reposi= tory that does do =0Amulti-byte characters, but, it is still=A0brand new an= d=A0not well=A0tested.=0ABut, FWIW, it is the git string_abstraction2 tree.= =A0 Hopefully the multi-byte=0Achars support will make its way into mainlin= e Guile in time for 2.0.=0A=0AIf it is the latter case, I=A0imagine that po= rting GNU libc is tricky.=A0 I=0Atried it once, years ago, and it was painf= ul.=0A=0AFor Guile compilation problems in general for a new platform, it m= ight help =0Ato use the "--disable-error-on-warning" options for Guile's ./= configure =0Aat first when trying to get it to compile.=0A=0AAlso, I saw th= at you were trying to compile 1.8.6.=A0 There is a 1.8.7, which=0Ahas some = bug fixes.=0A=0A-Mike