From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: isnan, isinf in ldc; Was: Re: Release imminent Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 11:12:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20160803091234.GA3172@solar> References: <87zip9pex1.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8gwgnrs.fsf@gnu.org> <20160802084640.GA2491@solar> <20160803095110.3e5cf1bc@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUsEI-0002UJ-Ep for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 05:12:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUsEC-0000KX-FT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 05:12:45 -0400 Received: from mailrelay6.public.one.com ([91.198.169.200]:27034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUsEC-0000K7-2V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 05:12:40 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160803095110.3e5cf1bc@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Danny, On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:51:10AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > ldc fails because they do > ::isnan > which is a bad idea if isnan is a C macro (which it usually isn't - but hey O_o). I've substituted > isnan > for it and this part then compiles fine. > This fix is not safe in general because if there's a method called isnan in scope, it will use that. In the ldc case, they've named the method "isNan" - so it's fine. did you forget to add a patch? Anyway, they made a release 1.0.0. Maybe it would be preferable to try an update of the package first, in case the problem is already solved on their side? Andreas