Re: [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released

[Damien Mattei <damien.mattei@gmail.com>]

on Mac os i have (only) one error:
In procedure dlsym: Error resolving "timerfd_create": "dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT,
timerfd_create): symbol not found"


On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 12:57 AM Olivier Dion via General Guile related
discussions <guile-user@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Jan 2023, Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions <
> guile-user@gnu.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Jan 2023, Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:
> >> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
> >>
> >>>> epoll is as I understand it linux only so that's not a reasonable
> >>>> dependency.   fibers now works with libevent which wraps multiple
> >>>> faclilities and is thus pretty portable.
> >>>
> >>> Guile-Fibers still uses epoll on Linux, on other systems it uses
> libevent.
> >>
> >> Understood - I just meant that fibers is now (at least 99% of the way)
> >> to "broadly portable".
> >>
> >> I don't know the details of Olivier's question and libevent, but would
> >> suggest that libevent does the sort of things that are needed and is the
> >> standard portable approach and is thus worth a hard look as the
> >> presumptive right answer, absent something better that only relies on
> >> what POSIX requires (and what's on Hurd :-).
> >
> > Hmm from a description I see on Guix, libev has relative timers.  I
> > don't know if it's portable like libevent though.  Will look at both
> > thanks!
>
> Well from my reading, it might be interesting to have a guile-libev.
>
> --
> Olivier Dion
> oldiob.dev
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