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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guile portability?
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:39:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87boubwvvb.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1316714626.3129.38.camel@psmith-ubeta

Hi Paul,

Guile exercises a very large subset of the POSIX API (file system,
networking, threads, etc.) and thus is quite exposed to portability
issues.  I suspect it’s not as portable as GNU Make, but that can be
fixed.

We mostly check it on GNU variants, but also on MacOS X and FreeBSD and
from time to time on Solaris and a few others.  Fortunately, Guile uses
Gnulib, and a large part of the OS-sensitive APIs is wrapped by Gnulib.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-22 18:03 Guile portability? Paul Smith
2011-09-22 19:18 ` objc
2011-09-23  7:39 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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