From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Compile ice-9/popen.scm for MinGW Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:06:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2dq3bcr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83oaxb66o4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404126431 9309 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2014 11:07:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mark H Weaver , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 30 13:07:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X1ZQQ-0003Vc-3G for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:07:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33424 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1ZQN-0008N0-ID for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1ZQG-0008Ms-Hf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1ZQB-0003qF-P7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:53626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1ZQ6-0003nB-Gc; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:06:46 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87392EE1; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:06:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hera.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QXW+RGWezlsb; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:06:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from pluto (eduroam-234a.sophia.inria.fr [193.51.208.234]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 78A9622F4; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:06:45 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 12 Messidor an 222 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <83oaxb66o4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:07:23 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130009 (Ma Gnus v0.9) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:474::1 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:17247 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii 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$enable_posix" =3D "xyes" && test "x$ac_cv_func_fork" =3D "x= yes"]) > > 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 , which is a MinGW issue, so it=E2=80=99s safe to remove it when the fork-less MinGW replacement that you proposed is committed. Ludo=E2=80=99.