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: master build issue Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:42:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87skif3ccv.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87eiu07qse.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> <87fxef4tvj.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244166048 13021 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2009 01:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 01:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 03:40:45 2009 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 1MCOQD-0002MK-FI for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCOQC-0004DR-Br for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:40:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCNGy-0001ob-Et for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCNGt-0001kn-Tt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52855 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCMQX-0006jX-MC for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:47993) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCKhP-0007yk-96 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C4B1F6C43; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 22:42:09 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 933393801F; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 22:42:08 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87fxef4tvj.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Thu\, 04 Jun 2009 21\:38\:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (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:8615 Archived-At: Neil Jerram writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> While we're complaining about the build :-) It seems we require gperf >> now. Is that correct? > > That's news to me. Where have you seen that? OK, I've seen it now too; used to generate iconv_open-*.h from iconv_open-*.gperf. Brought in implicitly by gnulib. It feels like an acceptable dependency to me, though. Also, although we could try to move some of this kind of building (assuming it really is platform-independent) from make-time to autogen-time, I think that would require quite a bit of work. Regards, Neil