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Re: G-Wrap 1.9.3rc1 -- please test
From: |
Greg Troxel |
Subject: |
Re: G-Wrap 1.9.3rc1 -- please test |
Date: |
09 Oct 2004 18:29:20 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
I've just uploaded the first 1.9.3 release canditate to
http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9926584/tmp/. This release
- contains libffi, as does 1.9.2
- has a the .pc file fixed, which was bogus when using the internal libffi
- reverts the enhanced generics support (which was in 1.9.2),
since this breaks guile-gnome
This release should thus be suitable for the guile-gnome 2.6.0
tarballs; please give it some testing. If I don't receive negative
feedback, I'll release it as 1.9.3 soonish.
After ranting, I thought I should do something useful, and set out to
get guile-gnome working. I haven't got there, and I'm submitting this
note as a bug/experience report. I didn't find your note about
1.9.3rc1, so I started at the web page.
1) guile-gnome web pages don't explain that you need g-wrap:
http://home.gna.org/guile-gnome/dev/
They should probably also mention that one needs Guile-Lib.
2) arch info on page above was very nice. I'm very used to CVS and
not yet an arch weenie, and I was able to check out the whole
multi-tree with no pain from the commands as given.
(It would be cool to give them in a cut/pastable shell script form,
so you can just cut from browser to shell and be done, but it was
easy enough.)
3) autogen.sh in guile-gnome chokes if . is not in PATH. Of course,
. should never be in PATH :-) It just needs ./ added in a few
places. Let me know if you would like a diff.
4) autogen.sh runs configure; this was surprising but on a reread of
README implied. I expected autogen to just set up for configure,
not run it, and perhaps saying that arguments for configure should
be given to autogen.sh would help.
5) I donwloaded g-wrap 1.9.2, the latest release on the web page:
http://www.nongnu.org/g-wrap/
On reading the README, I find that I have to get
Guile-Lib >= 0.1.2, http://home.gna.org/guile-lib
Via that page, there's a missing link to a download area:
http://download.gna.org/guile-lib/daily/
I then found the regular release area, and will continue.
It would really help to clean up bad links on the web pages and be
more clear about prereqs. I realize why its good to split things out,
and am just trying to convey the experience of a non-hard-core user
trying to build guile-gnome. If I weren't such a Scheme fan I would
have given up and found other things to play with by now.
--
Greg Troxel <address@hidden>
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