Question about updating guile to 1.8

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:28 -0800, Amatus wrote:
> --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 08:38 -0800, Amatus wrote:
> > > --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The way you're doing it is probably best.  The way you submitted
> > in
> > > > the
> > > > PR, while it may look correct, will most likely break INDEX when
> > > > guile
> > > > is not installed.   Try it.  Uninstall guile, then cd to
> > lang/slib,
> > > > and
> > > > run "make describe".  Use of != is discouraged for commands which
> > are
> > > > not in the base system.
> > > > 
> > > > Joe
> > > 
> > > I uninstalled guile and make describe worked fine with some noise
> > on
> > > stderr.
> > 
> > What output?  Any output on stderr is bad.
> 
> The "make describe" outputs "/usr/local/bin/guile-config: not found" on
> stderr as you might expect and the exit code is 0. Since "make index"
> pipes stdout to the INDEX file everything should work fine, just some
> uglyness on the user's screen. If it's really important I can try 2>
> /dev/null in the command or maybe a test -f to see if the file exists
> first.

The bigger problem is what happens to the make describe output?  If you
are not trying to use GUILE_VERSION in other make variables, I would
skip the != notation, and use the previous `...` notation as it is
safer.  If you use !=, and the make variables that reference
GUILE_VERSION are used to in things like *_DEPENDS, then that will
effectively break INDEX and package builds.

Joe

> 
> > 
> > >  I'm running into more problems with gnucash and lsh using
> > > RUN_DEPENDS. I need to .include <bsd.port.pre.mk> before the != but
> > if
> > > I move it up too high in the file (before RUN_DEPENDS) then make
> > > breaks. Would it be ok to just edit the dependency to be
> > > "slib-guile>=3a4:${PORTSDIR}/lang/slib-guile" instead of
> > > "${LOCALBASE}/share/guile/1.6/slibcat:${PORTSDIR}/lang/slib-guile"?
> > 
> > This is fine.  Also, there's no dishonor in hardcoding the guile
> > version.  It may look ugly, but guile's minor version hasn't changed
> > much, and it's not too hard to chase.
> > 
> > Joe
> 
> 
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