gEDA-dev: guile-1.8 requirement

[David Fang]

> well....  guile-1.8.x is from late 2006 not 2003/4.  But my comment
> about OS's was really more about the way many linux distributions seem
> to like to treat things like gtk or guile as part of the OS as opposed
> to something that you add on to the OS.  It was not meant to say it is
> not ok to depend on new versions of libraries.
>
> I have several patches to get guile-1.8.1 to build on my alpha (it does
> not build out of the box) but it still is failing some of the testsuite.
>   I'm working on it.  I'll try solaris as soon as gmp finished
> installing.  I'm also working at getting pkgsrc updated to guile-1.8.1.
>
> -Dan
>
> p.s. any reports on guile-1.8.1 from darwin users?

FWIW,
	I've been using guile-1.8 from fink on *-apple-darwin8 this year
with no hitches.  Whoever manages the fink packaging only needs to add
dependencies to 'guile18'[-dev] and voil\`{a}.  OS X 10.3 users might be
missing out, since guile18 hasn't been back-packaged to the 10.3 tree yet.
(I've done so with a locally tweaked package based on the 10.4 package if
anyone is interested.)
	This thread comes as a coincidence since I also require
guile-1.8 for my own project for the exact same reason -- the
aforementioned convenient functions/interfaces missing in 1.6.  I would be
interested in providing wrappers to work-around these missing interfaces,
and let autoconf/configure select the appropriate implementation.
	Good to hear we have common issues.  :)

Fang


David Fang
Computer Systems Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cornell University
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
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