Re: UINTPTR_MAX, INTPTR_MAX requirements

[Dave Love]

You wrote: 

> true.  i asked this because i was hoping to see something like:
>        
> ${ac_dA}SIZEOF_UINTPTR_T${ac_dB}SIZEOF_UINTPTR_T${ac_dC}4${ac_dD}
> ${ac_dA}SIZEOF_PTRDIFF_T${ac_dB}SIZEOF_PTRDIFF_T${ac_dC}4${ac_dD}
> ${ac_uA}SIZEOF_UINTPTR_T${ac_uB}SIZEOF_UINTPTR_T${ac_uC}4${ac_uD}
> ${ac_uA}SIZEOF_PTRDIFF_T${ac_uB}SIZEOF_PTRDIFF_T${ac_uC}4${ac_uD}
> 
> which would confirm that you are on the HEAD branch.

As far as I can tell, I was:

$ cvs status configure.in
===================================================================
File: configure.in      Status: Needs Patch

   Working revision:    1.176
   Repository revision: 1.179   /cvs/guile/guile-core/configure.in,v
   Sticky Tag:          (none)
   Sticky Date:         (none)
   Sticky Options:      (none)

> the output posted
> above seems to indicate that you are on the 1.6 branch,

Also, the tarball I generated with `make dist' for export to the Alpha
was called guile-1.7.0.tar.gz.

> but that doesn't require UINTPTR_MAX.  perhaps a fresh autogen.sh +
> configure run would help...

Don't the dependencies take care of CVS updates, as one would expect?
If not, the ANON-CVS instructions should say so.