Re: [RFC] Moving to Guile 2.2 and away from GUB

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Samstag, dem 27.11.2021 um 12:43 +0100 schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen:
> Carl Sorensen writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I think GUB was a great idea, but it has proven difficult to maintain.
> > And the creator of GUB (Jan), has indicated that he thinks it is not
> > worth continuing to work on.  So GUB has been a dead man walking for
> > some time.
> 
> FWIW, Han-Wen is the initial author of GUB
> 
>     
> https://gitlab.com/janneke/gub/-/commit/34095019c86ced7dc3be79e306b7a7b45e3ab909
> 
> in an effort to combine the Darwin and MinGW cross build
> scripts/makefiles.
> 
> But yeah, some 5 years ago
> 
>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2016-03/msg00204.html
> 
> I already proposed using GNU Guix, making use of its excellent cross
> build system and creation of universal binaries.

The problem is there is no such thing as cross-compilation for recent
macOS, it's simply not allowed by Apple. I have never deeply looked
into GNU Guix, but from my understanding it's a general solution that
will probably involve dynamic libraries, again getting us into all
sorts of trouble that I've demonstrated can be avoided.

Regards,
Jonas

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