From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: what do to if there is no %nil Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:23:50 +0000 Message-ID: <87fx63f9gp.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <201006.2653.qm@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263846268 23173 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2010 20:24:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 18 21:24:20 2010 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 1NWy96-0005Er-1P for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:24:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWy96-0002Zy-TL for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:24:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWy93-0002ZE-Fy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWy8z-0002XC-0w for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54075 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWy8y-0002X1-Nu for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:52674) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWy8y-0001nq-Dh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-183-76-203.range86-183.btcentralplus.com [86.183.76.203]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901EF1F6B91; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from arudy (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id E670938024; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:23:50 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:50:05 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:9898 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > On Mon 18 Jan 2010 15:23, Mike Gran writes: > >> I tried building master with the --disable-elisp configure option. >> When that option is enabled, libguile no longer contains the %nil value. >> The assembler expects %nil to always exist. >> >> I made a quick and dirty modification in >> 7beae9f15ac49f144a15d3ebfe80c2f29e43b3ff just to get it to build; but, >> I'm sure that a prettier solution should implemented. > > I saw that patch, and it looked fine to me. I'd also be fine with just > always building with %nil support (because that's basically all that > --enable-elisp does, right?), but maybe that's just me... Yes, I agree. There are a couple of details in the reader that depend on SCM_ENABLE_ELISP, that someone should check out. Subject to those being OK, I think we could remove the --disable-elisp option. Neil