Question about updating guile to 1.8

[Amatus]

--- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 14:24 -0800, Amatus wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > I'm working on updating lang/guile to 1.8.
> 
> Excellent.
> 
> >  I've basically got that
> > working but there are several other ports that refer to
> > ${LOCALBASE}/share/guile/1.6 that will need to be fixed. These are:
> > security/lsh
> > lang/slib-guile
> > finance/gnucash
> > I've just started doing port development so I'd like to ask what is
> the
> > correct way to fix these ports. What do you guys think of the
> attached
> > patch for lang/slib-guile?
> 
> This patch is okay.  But note that GUILE_VERSION is not expanded
> until
> it is used in sh.  That is, GUILE_VERSION does NOT equal "1.8".  You
> will not be able to make it equal "1.8" until it is interpreted by
> sh.
> The way you're using it here is fine, though.
> 
> As for the command itself, it should probably be:
> 
> `${LOCALBASE}/bin/guile-config info guileversion | ${CUT} -f 1-2 -d
> .`
> 
> Are you in a position to be run-time testing these ports with the new
> guile?  Once you're done with your work, do you want to be the guile
> maintainer?
> 
> Joe

I realize it's not expanded immediately. I know in GNU make there is
the $(shell) syntax for doing that but I didn't find a way to do that
in BSD make. Do you know the Right Way?
I use gnucash regularly so I will give that a good exercising before I
submit a patch. The other packages I will "smoke test," as they say, to
make sure they don't explode when I run them.
I'm ok with being the maintainer for guile. Thanks for your help.


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