From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: OS distros that package guile-1.8 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:20:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <573711.74584.qm@web37913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199978452 29778 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2008 15:20:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 10 16:21:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JCzDL-0005kN-P7 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:21:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCzCu-0002Zg-LJ for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:20:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCzCd-0002MD-TK for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCzCZ-0002GQ-VI for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:20:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCzCZ-0002G5-EY for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fnord.ir.bbn.com ([192.1.100.210]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCzCZ-0002iE-73 for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: by fnord.ir.bbn.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id 6888F52EF; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:20:14 -0500 (EST) X-Hashcash: 1:20:080110:spk121@yahoo.com::RUDPghentT5n6Mts:00jji X-Hashcash: 1:20:080110:guile-user@gnu.org::jq9oYFqKqyQZmVn1:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000160N In-Reply-To: <573711.74584.qm@web37913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:03:12 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6380 Archived-At: Mike Gran 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).