From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Preparing for a 1.6.8 release. Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:39:20 -0700 Message-ID: <87u0fdm5zr.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <200510192322.QAA28096@hpsje.cup.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129765484 8347 80.91.229.2 (19 Oct 2005 23:44:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 01:44:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESNbA-0008IN-BZ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:43:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESNb9-00076y-EH for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESNWn-0006GC-PV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESNWm-0006Fb-On for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESNWm-0006FU-7d for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.85.129.156] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESNWm-0005lO-Br for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from omen.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8AA90D36; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:39:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by omen.defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E0740F3; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 715A13C105B; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Steve Ellcey In-Reply-To: <200510192322.QAA28096@hpsje.cup.hp.com> (Steve Ellcey's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:22:40 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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:5322 Archived-At: Steve Ellcey writes: > Well, I am not sure. There seem to be two ways to attack this, create > some HP-UX specific code for continuations.c and gc.c, which would be to > replace the access of ucontext_t with calls and then set IA64 in > gc_os_dep.c and do more HP-UX specific stuff in that file. Or bail out > of the continuations.c and gc.c changes (use the default case) and just > use more generic code. I am not sure what the right way to go is. Does HP-UX work with the generic code? If so, then what would be the advantage to anything else? > I don't have the HP-UX specific code for continuations.c and gc.c at > hand, my first thought was to just skip that code and use the generic C > code. That is why I was wondering if we wanted to punt on 1.6.8. And, > to add one more complication, the accessor functions that I would use to > replace the IA64 Linux code are not in libc, but in a library called > libuca.so so that library would need to be linked in with guile. I > don't know if that complicates things or not. Adding support for the library would probably mean we'd need to add at least a bit of autoconfery. > I am not sure exactly what schedule 1.6.8 is on but I will be down from > tomorrow afternoon until Monday because of an office move over the > weekend. I think we're probably not in any danger of a release before then, but you're probably right. There's no reason this can't wait for 1.6.9, which I can release as soon as we figure it out. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel