Re: [ Porting Guile on Android 4.4 ]

[Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>]

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I'm not familiar with this porting work, so can't help more. But it's great
if I could use Guile on my phone!
Thanks for the work!

2017年6月16日 下午11:48，"Robert Dazi" <robert.dazi@yahoo.fr>写道：

> Hello,
> I tried to port Guile 2.2.1 on Android 4.4. As you might know, Android is
> not GNU/Linux and many functions (and even types such as localeconv) are
> missing or not acting as expected (either because the Linux headers have
> been ripped off or because Bionic lacks those features).
> That means the libraries needed some rewriting, and Guile too. Here some
> issues :
>    - the 'configure' script generated by autoconf uses the PREFIX variable
> to find libltdl, whereas it is better to ask the user for that path.
>    - Bionic doesn't implement well locales (and won't), setlocale is an
> empty function returning NULL
>    - Because the encoding format is unknown, init_random raises an error,
> but init_random is called before init_throw so since the static variable
> for throwing is set to an unknown state (on my device it is set to 0), it
> leads to a segfault. (By the way, setting LC_ALL to UTF-8 fixes the
> encoding issue if init_throw called before init_random).
>
> Eventually, I've got a (seemingly working) rpl by commenting out the
> 'setlocale' line within top-repl.scm.
>
> Thanksfully,
>

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