Re: Loading mixp-0.4 in guile-1.6.8

[Bruce Carleton <rbc@rbcarleton.com>]

Neil,

The patch did the job for me.  I simply patched the installed  
guile-1.6.8.  My existing mixp code seems to be working properly.

I'll try to move to guile-1.8 sometime in the near future.

Thanks,

			--Bruce


On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
>
>> The boot-9.scm patch below (which I have not tested) should fix this;
>
> FWIW, I've done a basic test of this patch now, so will commit to
> 1.6.x CVS.  We have no current plans for another 1.6.x release,
> though, because we believe you should be able to upgrade painlessly to
> 1.8.x.  If that's not the case, let us know, and we'll see what we can
> do about it.
>
> Regards,
>       Neil
>
>> --- boot-9.scm	8 Dec 2006 20:37:40 -0000	1.266.2.26
>> +++ boot-9.scm	25 Mar 2008 21:15:32 -0000
>> @@ -1768,9 +1768,9 @@
>>  	     (let* ((interface-args (cadr kws))
>>  		    (interface (apply resolve-interface interface-args)))
>>  	       (and (eq? (car kws) #:use-syntax)
>> -		    (or (symbol? (car interface-args))
>> +		    (or (symbol? (caar interface-args))
>>  			(error "invalid module name for use-syntax"
>> -			       interface-args))
>> +			       (car interface-args)))
>>  		    (set-module-transformer!
>>  		     module
>>  		     (module-ref interface (car

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