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Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without
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Jonas Hahnfeld |
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Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options" |
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Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:01:32 +0100 |
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Am Sonntag, den 08.03.2020, 16:40 +0100 schrieb Jonas Hahnfeld:
> Am Sonntag, den 08.03.2020, 16:28 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup:
> > So I am reasonably confident that with some reasonably designed chunks
> > of code, we'd end up with comparatively small headaches in upkeep. My
> > own gut feeling is that we'd not burn (or obstruct) any major bridges
> > supporting GUILE_CONFIG: if it is explicitly given, we don't really need
> > to check for versions or any other viability considerations: we can just
> > set the variables and be done. That's small enough that I would not
> > have qualms putting it in configure.in .
>
> If you're unhappy with the provided patch, I'd ask you to come up with
> something "reasonable" that you think is better.
Can we make progress on this issue and eventually start releasing 2.21?
Here's my take on why I think above approach doesn't work:
> Oh, turns out I need to strongly disagree with the last sentence: It's
> probably not of concern right now, but if we ever were to require Guile
> 2.x (I hope we're going to, and not only with 2.24) we should throw a
> hard error if a user presents us a guile-config from 1.8. Otherwise
> there will be linker errors, which are much harder to diagnose.
I'm still not convinced that we need compatibility code, but I'm happy
with anything that gets us to a release and is not technically wrong.
Jonas
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- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", (continued)
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Werner LEMBERG, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/08
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- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Anthony Fok, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Werner LEMBERG, 2020/03/14