Re: Fedora 19 comes with guile 2.0.9 - cannot use 2.17.22

[Ian Hulin]

On 20/07/13 22:25, Julien Rioux wrote:
> On 20/07/2013 5:00 PM, Ian Hulin wrote:
>> On 13/07/13 20:51, Frédéric Bron wrote:
>>>> I don't think ./configure should do this automatically, but
>>>> at the very least, it should fail when it finds a guile
>>>> version that is incompatible with our source code. Can you
>>>> please open an issue for it\?
>>> 
>>> good point, I will do that. Frédéric
>>> 
>> Hi Frédéric,
>> 
>> Could you make the Guile-1 compatibility a separate issue from
>> 3382, which is about tex-info versions?
>> 
> 
> These are different issues, I don't think there was ever any
> confusion about that. Frédéric sent a very clear message to
> lilypond-bugs about it.
> 
>> Here's a suggestion: add an --enable-guile-1-compatibilty option 
>> defaulting to #t until the Guile 2 conversion cut-over.
>> 
>> If set to true this sets up the variables you mentioned to be
>> exported in make.
>> 
>> Once the Guile-2 conversion is complete, we reverse the default
>> for --enable-guile-1-compatibilty to #f.
>> 
>> aclocal.m4 is the bit which does the configure option parsing,
>> 
>> We'd need new internal variable guile_1_compatibility_b which
>> then controls declaring
>> 
>> if test "$guile_1_compatibility_b" = yes; then 
>> AC_DEFINE(GUILE_1_COMPATIBILITY) DEFINES="$DEFINES
>> -DGUILE_1_COMPATIBILITY" GUILE=" /usr/bin/guile1.8" 
>> GUILE_CONFIG=" /usr/bin/guile1.8-config" GUILE_TOOLS="
>> /usr/bin/guile1.8-tools" fi
>> 
>> This is untested but you get the idea.  Model the changes for 
>> aclocal.m4 on the --enable-optimising/($)optimising_b sections.
>> 
>> I haven't looked at what would be needed in the makefiles but
>> this should give you or Julien a start.
>> 
> 
> I got started already, see 
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3461. I don't
> think that we need a guile-1 compatibility mode right now, since we
> don't even support guile-2 yet and dropping guile-1 seems pretty
> far on the horizon.
> 
Erm... don't we need it now that Linux OS distros are producing kits
with Guile V2.n and Lily needs to be built with Guile 1.8.8 (or even
1.8.7) until the Lily conversion to Guile 2 is completed?

Thanks for the heads up re 3164, I'll have a look in there and
associated Rietveld.

Cheers,

Ian