From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: i guess we're frozen & stuff Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:01:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0489FB6F-567B-4967-9703-1A3D89462A37@raeburn.org> <79F7A852-10ED-46DF-9D41-ED545493E8FE@raeburn.org> <87pr9dpgfw.fsf@gnu.org> <87zl8gsqha.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254045793 30997 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2009 10:03:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 27 12:03:05 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 1Mrqau-0004vI-FB for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:03:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mrqar-0003Ob-Hb for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mrqa1-00039I-4z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:02:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrqZw-00038e-6n for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36366 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MrqZv-00038V-SR for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from splat.raeburn.org ([69.25.196.39]:38102 helo=raeburn.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MrqZe-0008Ck-VO; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.0.158] ([10.0.0.158]) by raeburn.org (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n8RA1jga022297; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:01:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87zl8gsqha.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:9410 Archived-At: On Sep 27, 2009, at 05:10, Ludovic Court=E8s wrote: >> I got version 6.8. It had the function, just not the declaration. > > You should use 7.x. In fact, IIRC, 6.x is not detected by =91configure=92= > because it has no =91bdw-gc.pc=92. True, though the error message from the configure script itself =20 suggested I could use BDW_GC_* environment variables instead, and =20 didn't mention a required minimum version number, so I took the =20 "older, more stable version" recommended on the web site for the GC =20 library. Yes, I obviously failed to check Guile's own README file. :-) If we need 7.x, should we check GC_VERSION_MAJOR>=3D7 at compile time? Ken=