From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, bootstrappable@freelists.org
Subject: Re: Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psyntax-pp.scm?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 16:55:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw2onvos.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inj5f2eg.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:42:47 -0400")
Mark H Weaver writes:
>> Does this mean Guile is not bootstrappable from source only?
>
> That's correct. psyntax-pp.scm is not source code, and it is needed to
> bootstrap Guile.
I'm facing the same problem with Mes. I have an implemenation of
syntax-rules that is just about 200 lines of define-macro source code,
but not syntax case.
The only useful thing I found was Andre van Tonder's syntax-case. I
tried to geth it up and running, which just might be a way (it's not
clear to me from the documentation or code and it seems to have been a
lone effort that was abandoned -- could not find any references or
follow-ups) to have syntax-case without psyntax. I gave up for now.
> Having said this, I agree that it would be better if psyntax.scm were
> written in such a way that it could be bootstrapped without the use of
> itself. Maybe some day we'll rewrite it to make it so.
That could be essential to our full source bootstrapping efforts so I'm
very much interested!
Greetings,
janneke
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2017-07-06 15:24 Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psyntax-pp.scm? Alex Vong
2017-07-07 1:42 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-07 14:00 ` Alex Vong
2017-07-07 16:40 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-07 14:55 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
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