From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile-2.0 on mingw: the sequel Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:32:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83fvtxh5p3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vc2wj4hz.fsf@gnu.org> <877gfccueo.fsf@tines.lan> <83d2p4ifow.fsf@gnu.org> <874nada6t1.fsf@tines.lan> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377462771 13993 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2013 20:32:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 25 22:32:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgzT-0002J8-Kv for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:32:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgzT-0004uu-74 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:32:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgzF-0004ls-Nb for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgzA-0001xa-EC for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:43956) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgzA-0001x9-6S for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MS300500SYWET00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:32:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MS3005FTT266H60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:32:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <874nada6t1.fsf@tines.lan> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:10703 Archived-At: > From: Mark H Weaver > Cc: godek.maciek@gmail.com, guile-user@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:50:34 -0400 > > Well, that's not generally how things are done on POSIX systems As I said, some GNU projects already do that. GCC and GDB are two examples. > furthermore I don't see how this could be made to work reliably on > POSIX. It's true that this is not 100% bulletproof on Posix, but it's close. And when it doesn't work, we didn't lose anything, we are just back to where we are now, right?