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From: Aaron VanDevender <sig@netdot.net>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile.m4
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:59:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150336764.2726.161.camel@lazlo.netdot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pshb5j7x.fsf@zip.com.au>


On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 10:57 +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> The autoconf philosophy is usually not to check version numbers
> explicitly if it can be avoided, better to check for desired
> feature(s).
> 
> Since guile is interpreted you can do a lot at runtime instead of
> worrying about it during configure too.

Not really for my purposes. I want to be able to decide if I should use
SCM_MUST_MALLOC or scm_gc_malloc. This isn't something that the
interpreter can tell me. I suppose I can grep though the header file,
but it seemed that checking for the version was more robust.

Is there a better way?

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-15  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-13 14:40 guile.m4 Aaron VanDevender
2006-06-14  0:17 ` guile.m4 Neil Jerram
2006-06-14  3:02   ` guile.m4 Aaron VanDevender
2006-06-15  0:57 ` guile.m4 Kevin Ryde
2006-06-15  1:59   ` Aaron VanDevender [this message]
2006-06-15  5:52     ` guile.m4 Stephen Compall

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