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Hello, |
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I've took the time to understand what I did 6-8 years ago about guile |
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SLOT support - as guile-3 is coming - and we are still struggled with |
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guile-1.8 for some packages, 2.0 and 2.2 breaks a lot of stuff. |
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I won't list the numerous bugs related to guile's versions, but the |
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more important ones are that texmacs still requires guile-1.8 (and |
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lilypond?). |
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I thing I now understand how guile evolved from upstream, and my |
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mistake was to believe we can have different slots for 1.8 and 2.0. |
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Both installs /usr/lib64/libguile.so and tweaking that in src_install |
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is hazardous. |
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guile-2.2 has clean SLOT support, files are installed in |
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/usr/share/guile/2.2 and /usr/lib64/guile/2.2/ naturally, the |
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pkg-config file is well named. |
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So my plan would be to: |
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- leave guile-1.8 and 2.0 in the 12 SLOT as they are currently |
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- slot guile-2.2 (it requires a very small patch to the ebuild) |
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- update DEPEND of packages OK with guile-2.2 |
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- identify package that cannot build with guile-2.2 |
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- if they all build with guile-1.8, drop guile-2.0 |
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The only issue I have with SLOT is the /usr/share/aclocal/guile.m4 |
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file, and I need a SLOT guru and autoconf guru to sort this |
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out properly. |
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CC amynka who pushed the guile ebuild to the tree |
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CC pacho who opened the guile-2.2 breakage tracker |
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Thanks for reading |
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Cyprien Nicolas (fulax) |
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