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From: Bruce Korb <bkorb@pacbell.net>
Cc: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>,
	rm@fabula.de, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>,
	Dirk Herrmann <dirk@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de>,
	guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Release Guile, now ;-) [was:] Re: GC rewrite, first version.
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 13:43:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D4D9205.8032FA18@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200208030713.g737DTb31719@Mirddin.farlep.net

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> 
> > Just add the following macro at the
> > end of the configure.ac file:
> >
> > http://ac-archive.sf.net/Miscellaneous/ac_create_prefix_config_h.html
> 
> Sure, I know about this macro. Still, I don't believe it solves the
> problem, rather, it presents a work-around. The idea behind auto.*
> tools was to generate a configuration file *for a given package*, i.e.
> a private header. However, here the private header is made global

Which is exactly the problem.  Guile should *not* be exporting
its config.h header.  Further, since Guile should not be doing
it, anyone depending upon the Guile-configured values has mis-
coded their program.  On that theory, the config header Guile
exports should be free to prefix all its values.  Guile should
do this.

> and as such makes linking Guile to other packages unreasonably
> difficult. Imagine a developer who wishes to use Guile as an extension
> language for his package, he then would need to change almost all his
> configuration suite.

To the contrary.  Guile needs to do this.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-04 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-27 22:54 GC rewrite, first version Han-Wen
2002-07-28 16:40 ` Rob Browning
2002-07-29 20:11   ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-29 21:04     ` Rob Browning
2002-07-29 22:05       ` Han-Wen
2002-07-31 17:03         ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-31 18:02           ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-31 21:15             ` Rob Browning
2002-08-01  9:20               ` Release Guile, now ;-) [was:] " rm
2002-08-01 16:27                 ` Rob Browning
2002-08-01 16:44                   ` rm
2002-08-01 18:37                   ` Sergey Poznyakoff
2002-08-01 22:21                     ` Rob Browning
2002-08-02  6:09                       ` Sergey Poznyakoff
2002-08-02 14:36                         ` Rob Browning
2002-08-02 17:29                           ` Sergey Poznyakoff
2002-08-02 18:10                             ` Bruce Korb
2002-08-02 19:50                               ` Rob Browning
2002-08-03  7:13                               ` Sergey Poznyakoff
2002-08-04 20:43                                 ` Bruce Korb [this message]
2002-08-04 20:57                                   ` Sergey Poznyakoff
2002-08-01 22:40                   ` Rob Browning
2002-08-02  9:35                     ` rm
2002-08-02 11:59                       ` rm
2002-08-02 15:00                         ` Rob Browning
2002-08-02 14:50                       ` Rob Browning
2002-08-01  9:59               ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-01  8:46             ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 18:46         ` Neil Jerram
2002-08-01  9:58           ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-28 16:51 ` Michael Livshin

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