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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compile ice-9/popen.scm for MinGW
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:06:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2dq3bcr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83oaxb66o4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:07:23 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:

> Once open-process worked for me, I quickly found out that
> modules/ice-9/popen.scm is not being compiled.  This is because
> configure.ac explicitly excludes it for systems lacking 'fork':
>
>    AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_ICE_9_POPEN],
>      [test "x$enable_posix" = "xyes" && test "x$ac_cv_func_fork" = "xyes"])
>
> Not sure how best to fix this; perhaps the test should be removed
> altogether (are there any supported systems that cannot support
> popen.scm?).

The test was in response to <http://bugs.gnu.org/13848>, which is a
MinGW issue, so it’s safe to remove it when the fork-less MinGW
replacement that you proposed is committed.

Ludo’.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-30 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-29 16:07 Compile ice-9/popen.scm for MinGW Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-30 11:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-06-30 14:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-03 16:22     ` Eli Zaretskii

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