Re: [guile-2.2] patches

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> guile-2.2 is released. So I plan to implement most patches from the
> remotes/origin/dev/guile-v2-work-branch and those I've put locally on
> top of it.
>
> This will sometimes require some updating of those patches. Most of
> them were created to make lily work with guile-2.0.x. Also, I'd like
> to check whether those patches are still all needed: guile-devs
> claimed a far better port-encoding-handling wrt to utf-8, etc. We will
> see...
>
> The main question:
> I'd like to facilitate review by putting them on one by one.
> Though this may result in commits with only partly working LilyPond,
> if compiled with guile-2.2

Well, that's not exactly a regression.

> For example the attached.
> It makes configure find all the needed files when done with --enable-guile2
> But make will fail.
> (lily with guile-1.8 should be unaffected.)

The problem is more that Guile-2.0 will not work at all any more, and it
will take some time until Guile-2.2 becomes generally available.  Now
it's not like compilation with Guile-2.0 is doing us a lot of favors
anyway.

-- 
David Kastrup