From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: compilation warnings Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:11:22 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ad8uogvp.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87y8yjq56w.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87ad8wrv50.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064384144 10551 80.91.224.253 (24 Sep 2003 06:15:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:15:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 08:15:42 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A22wA-0001rF-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:15:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A22sc-000298-HI for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A22s2-00023g-PQ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A22s0-00022H-HY for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A22rz-00021z-Tf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2EAB3FC2 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:11:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 78EB7810FD; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:11:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Paul Jarc's message of "Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:19:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2824 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2824 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > That's not especially useful advice, though. After a new autoconf > release, Guile won't be updated instantly; it'll take some time. > Maybe a significant amount of time in pathological cases, but in any > case, how will we know? Depends on what you mean. Distribution .tar.gzs (of course) aren't supposed to require any of the autotools, but if you're building from CVS, then we reserve the right to require the latest versions. However, at any given time, we probably only require some fairly recent version. Right now I'm using automake 1.7.7 and autoconf 2.57. so whenever I'm working on unstable, I'll be making sure we're compatible with that. (Just tested an ./autogen.sh on unstable, and it seems OK...) If you mean how would someone who wants to work on a 1.6.X tarfile know which autotools to use, then that's tougher. Right now we just supply a list of versions known not to work in HACKING. Ideally, they'd just be able to use the latest tools as well. Frankly, I'd consider a failure to build using the latest autotools important enough to warrant a stable point release. > Also, which tools do we need? Guile has its own libtool, right? So > just autoconf and automake? You actually do need autoconf, automake, and libtool. We have our own version of ltdl, but you'll still need libtool for all the rest: compilation, etc. (or more specifically, so ./autogen.sh can run libtoolize). -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel