Re: OS distros that package guile-1.8

[Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>]

Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:

> OS WITH OFFICIAL PACKAGE OR PORT FOR 1.8
>
> Gnu/Linux (various distros)
> NetBSD
> Debian Gnu/Hurd "sid"
> Cygwin
>
> OS WITHOUT OFFICIAL PACKAGE OR PORT FOR 1.8
>
> OpenBSD
> FreeBSD
> Minix 3.0
> Darwin
> FreeDOS ;-)
>
> (Granted, Guile may well compile on other OSs, but, I don't want to sign myself up to do more than porting and testing of my own software.)
>
> Am I missing anything obvious?

Nothing obvious :-)

There's a slight subtlety between NetBSD proper and pkgsrc.  pkgsrc is
the packaging system developed under NetBSD but which is portable to
many more platforms.  pkgsrc should work on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS
X/Darwin from your list above.  Plus Solaris, and to some degree on
IRIX, AIX, Interix, HP-UX.

  http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html#platforms

Also, pkgsrc is the official packaging system of DragonFlyBSD.

There are currently issues with guile from pkgsrc on Darwin, related to
Darwin's different approach to shared library search paths, and guile's
expecation that modules be found via searching rather than using full
paths.  guile definitely works fine on NetBSD (e.g., gnucash runs).