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Re: Debian guile-1.8 and ttn guile-pg
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Sebastian Tennant |
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Re: Debian guile-1.8 and ttn guile-pg |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:38:15 +0300 |
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Quoth <address@hidden>:
> ---- Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
>> [guile-pg and guile 1.8]
>>
>> I was hoping his guile-pg would work because it doesn't explicity
>> state that a 1.4.x guile is required like some of his other packages
>> do.
>>
>> It works fine under 1.6. What it needs is the feature, deprecated in
>> 1.6 and removed in 1.8, of looking for a shlib when a module is used,
>> and loading it and running the init function. The 1.8 way is to have a
>> scheme stub that dynlinks the module and exports the symbols. So
>> guile-pg needs a new .scm file that does this, and I suspect that's all
>> that's required but I'm not sure.
>
> That is one issue but not all. There are other apis that were
> deprecated in 1.6 and finally removed in 1.8. I'm pretty sure it's
> not possible to wite a C Guile extension that works without change on
> 1.4 *and* 1.8.
Thanks for the clarifications.
Sebastian