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’.
next prev parent 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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