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Re: guile.m4
From: |
Aaron VanDevender |
Subject: |
Re: guile.m4 |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:59:24 -0500 |
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 10:57 +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> The autoconf philosophy is usually not to check version numbers
> explicitly if it can be avoided, better to check for desired
> feature(s).
>
> Since guile is interpreted you can do a lot at runtime instead of
> worrying about it during configure too.
Not really for my purposes. I want to be able to decide if I should use
SCM_MUST_MALLOC or scm_gc_malloc. This isn't something that the
interpreter can tell me. I suppose I can grep though the header file,
but it seemed that checking for the version was more robust.
Is there a better way?
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