Re: Upcoming 1.6.5 release.

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>]

Hello Andreas,

I tried your procedure and it works!

So it would be great if this can be included in 1.6.5. Then guile
works out of the box on Mac OS X.

Best regards
Michael

On Aug 9, 2004, at 7:17 PM, Andreas Vögele wrote:

> Michael Tuexen writes:
>
>> This seems to be related to the problem I see on Mac OS X: I can 
>> build and use the static version, but not the dynamic version. [...] 
>> This would definitely be good if building dynamic libs is supported.
>
> There's a Fink port called guile16 that supports shared libraries. The 
> current CVS version does also work under Mac OS X. Furthermore, the 
> code that uses _NSGetEnviron is already in the 1.6 branch. Only the 
> corresponding checks are missing from configure.in.
>
> Guile snapshots are available at 
> <ftp://ftp.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/guile/snapshots>.
> You can unpack and build the snapshot with the following  commands 
> under Mac OS X:
>
> tar xzf guile-core.tar.gz
> cd guile-core-20040808
> sh configure
> echo >>config.h "#define HAVE__NSGETENVIRON 1"
> echo >>config.h "#define HAVE_CRT_EXTERNS_H 1"
> make
> make check
>
> One check will fail. That's the putenv problem mentioned in my 
> previous message. If you want to get rid of this error edit 
> libguile/posix.c. Look for the function scm_putenv and replace the 
> putenv call with something like
>
> if (strchr (ptr, '='))
>   rv = putenv (ptr);
> else
>   {
>     unsetenv (ptr);
>     rv = 0;
>   }
>
>
>
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