Re: gEDA-dev: guile-1.8 requirement

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

Mike Jarabek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 22:17 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:
>> The big-picture question is:  Which Linux distros do we want to
>> support?  Is SuSE 9.3 too old?  SuSE 10.x?  How about FC2, 3, 4,
>> 5.....   If we define a few distros which are "supported", and declare
>> older ones "unsupported", then we can see which use guile-1.6 and
>> which use guile-1.8.
> 
> I, for myself, use it on FreeBSD, and even the most current stable
> release of FreeBSD includes Guile 1.6.8 in the ports tree, nothing
> newer.  I think that the current gEDA snapshot in the ports tree is
> 20070216, which is pretty recent. Without having a newer guile in the
> ports tree, I don't think I can build it out of the box anymore. (I have
> to install a local version of 1.8...)
> 
> Not sure where that leaves the Solaris folks either...

NetBSD's pkgsrc has 1.6.8 and not 1.8.x.  Part of the reason is that 
guile-1.8.x has problems loading slib.

Anyway, I'm looking into getting 1.8.1 into pkgsrc.

-Dan


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