From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Debian guile-1.8 and ttn guile-pg Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:38:15 +0300 Message-ID: <87abkebpe0.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> References: <30630465.1206994690538.JavaMail.root@web31> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206995924 1903 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2008 20:38:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:38:44 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 22:39:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JgQmg-0006Ql-Na for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:39:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgQm4-0003kk-NJ for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgQm0-0003jl-Eq for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgQlz-0003iz-Cq for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgQlz-0003iu-7V for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JgQly-0002pp-Si for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JgQlo-0006t4-J7 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:38:20 +0000 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:38:20 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:38:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bZE1BI73HsZ+pufJNNS1ELkVluc= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6509 Archived-At: Quoth : > ---- Greg Troxel wrote: >> [guile-pg and guile 1.8] >> >> I was hoping his guile-pg would work because it doesn't explicity >> state that a 1.4.x guile is required like some of his other packages >> do. >> >> It works fine under 1.6. What it needs is the feature, deprecated in >> 1.6 and removed in 1.8, of looking for a shlib when a module is used, >> and loading it and running the init function. The 1.8 way is to have a >> scheme stub that dynlinks the module and exports the symbols. So >> guile-pg needs a new .scm file that does this, and I suspect that's all >> that's required but I'm not sure. > > That is one issue but not all. There are other apis that were > deprecated in 1.6 and finally removed in 1.8. I'm pretty sure it's > not possible to wite a C Guile extension that works without change on > 1.4 *and* 1.8. Thanks for the clarifications. Sebastian