Guile 1.4.1.116 available

Guile 1.4.1.116 available

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

release notes:

  NEWS excerpt includes .115, which was not announced.  In fact,
  the .115 tarball has been removed since i wouldn't want anyone
  else to have to experience a two-year-old spazzing over a broken
  Tastiera Dura...

  thi

NEWS excerpt:

  - 1.4.1.116 | 2008-04-18
  
    - dropped configure option: --disable-dynamic-linking
  
        Maybe this will return later, but probably not.
  
    - bugfix: dynamic linking arranges for RTLD_GLOBAL
  
        The libltdl distributed w/ Libtool 1.5.26 (used by Guile
        1.4.1.114 and prior) specifies RTLD_GLOBAL automatically.  The
        Libtool 2.2.2 libltdl, on the other hand, supplies a so-called
        compatability interface, but barring extra information (i.e.,
        specification via `advise' structure), lets the system choose
        the default flags.  This may result in your system choosing
        RTLD_LOCAL, breaking modules downstream from non-leaf modules.
  
        Example: (sdl gfx) needs symbols from (sdl sdl), so we see:
  
        $ guile -c '(use-modules (sdl sdl))' ; echo $?
        0
  
        $ guile -c '(use-modules (sdl gfx))' ; echo $?
        ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
        ERROR: file not found
        2
  
        This actually demonstrates another problem (unresolved for this
        Guile release), namely that the actual error "unresolved symbol
        gsdl_smob_tags" is not propagated correctly from the system
        layer (dlopen, in my case) through libltdl to Guile.  Meh.
  
        Anyway, the point is that previously working stuff no longer
        works.  So, for the time being, for backward compatibility and
        until a finer-grained Scheme interface shows up, we explicitly
        construct an `advise' structure and specify `is_symglobal'.
  
        NB: This has been tested ONLY with the configure option
            `--enable-ltdl-install'.  YMMV otherwise.
  
  - 1.4.1.115 | 2008-04-15
  
    - dropped configure option: --enable-htmldir=DIR
  
        Previously this would arrange for "make install" to also install
        HTML documentation in DIR.  To achieve the same result now, use:
  
        ./configure --htmldir=DIR
        make install-html
  
    - bugfix: handle (string->number "200000" 8) w/o numeric overflow
  
    - dropped module: (ice-9 md-data)
  
        Announced in Guile 1.4.1.111 (2007-09-27).
  
    - dropped (scripts PROGRAM) proc: script-MAIN
  
        NB: This is a backward-incompatible change (but probably with
        little practical impact -- the proc was has been unused in Guile
        and gnuvola.org projects since 2003 or so, and documentation was
        dropped since Guile 1.4.1.100 (2004-10-22)).
  
        Use `HVQC-MAIN' from that module, instead.
  
    - maintenance uses Autoconf 2.62, Automake 1.10.1, Libtool 2.2.2
  
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