From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Gnulib support Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:44:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87bqcwdmvt.fsf@chbouib.org> References: <87tzrnp6dx.fsf@chbouib.org> <87tzr0wcn3.fsf@zip.com.au> <871wdyk4t2.fsf@laas.fr> <878x85vjt2.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188033224 24993 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2007 09:13:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:13:44 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 25 11:13:42 2007 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 1IOri8-0005kz-Rn for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:13:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOri7-0003Cf-QX for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOri3-0003Bv-Ma for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:13:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOri1-0003B6-Vy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:13:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOri1-0003Ah-Dx for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IOri0-0002UW-LG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:13:32 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IOrGV-0003GX-Hr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IOrGQ-0006Rb-Cq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:45:02 +0200 Original-Received: from adh419.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.9]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:45:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by adh419.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:45:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adh419.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i486-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ykCxRCLZmysJqofR3iq4abpa9wM= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:6743 Archived-At: Hi, Kevin Ryde writes: > The problem is if other libraries do the same thing, ie. put an > strcasecmp in. I expect you get clashes that'd stop an application > using certain combinations of libraries, or getting mis-detections of > what's available where, etc. > > For namespace cleanliness any globally visible symbol in libguile really > has to have an scm_ (or probably scm_i_) prefix. Is gnulib setup to > help libraries with that? Nosing around it looks like perhaps not yet. Bruno Haible listed potential issues and workarounds in: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/11101 (Gmane's threading seems to be slightly broken currently.) I have not taken any action yet but what you suggest is doable. Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel