From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile portability? Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:39:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87boubwvvb.fsf@inria.fr> References: <1316714626.3129.38.camel@psmith-ubeta> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316763589 6779 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2011 07:39:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:39:49 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 23 09:39:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R70ML-0001xv-3K for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:39:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40294 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R70MF-0007Xc-3T for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R70MB-0007XW-9E for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R70MA-0002cq-FW for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R70MA-0002cm-AU for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R70M8-0001sC-HK for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:39:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 193.50.110.167 ([193.50.110.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:39:32 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by 193.50.110.167 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:39:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.50.110.167 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 2 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vend=E9miaire?= an 220 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A32SDPtWXXxufIJ0Xm/91JdBFQQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:8825 Archived-At: 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’.