Re: [Freehoo-devel] freehoo and guile versions.

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

Hi Harsha,
Can you please give a backward compatibility patch similar to
the one you did for freetalk?

Hi Ray, Let me make a new release supporting both Guile 1.6 and 1.8.

Thanks,
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Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Hi all, I'm packaging freehoo (and subsequently libyahoo2) for Fedora
> and Fedora EPEL.  Ran into a small issue that I wanted to run by you
> guys if anyone actually is susbscribed to this list still.. :)
>
> The latest version of freehoo (3.5.0) appears to require guile 1.8.x to
> build correctly.  Trying to build against an older version (1.6.x is
> included with RHEL4) fails.  A lot of the errors look like they might
> be corrected by some simple defines:
>
>   http://www.bludgeon.org/~rayvd/rpms/freehoo/make.log
>
> My other options include creating a guile18 package for EPEL4, using an
> older version of freehoo (which might mean I'd need to use an older
> version of libyahoo2 as well?) or just not providing an RPM fo anything
> older than EPEL5 (RH5 and newer).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> My initial releases are here:
>
>   http://www.bludgeon.org/~rayvd/rpms/freehoo/
>   http://www.bludgeon.org/~rayvd/rpms/libyahoo2/
>
> libyahoo2 already had a .spec file, so I basically used it, but stuck
> with their original sources and merged in your patches.
>
> Anyways, if anyone is alive back there it'd be great to get some
> feedback on this.
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
>
>
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