ITP: Guile 1.5.6

[Charles Wilson]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> Last night, I've eventually succeeded in building guile-1.5.6, with
> shared object libraries for Cygwin.
> 
> Guile version 1.5.6, is now available for testing at:
> 
>     http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile
> 
> After a successful installation of guile (and libguile14), you should
> be able to run, eg,
> 
>     guile -c '(begin (write (string-append "hello: " (version) "\n")))'
> 
> May we have your votes (and comments) please.


> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/guile-1.5.6-1-src.tar.bz2
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/guile-1.5.6-1.tar.bz2
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/guile-doc/guile-doc-1.5.6-1.tar.bz2
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/libguile14/libguile14-1.5.6-1.tar.bz2
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/libguile14-dev/libguile14-dev-1.5.6-1.tar.bz2


Well, the setup.hints for guile-doc, libguile14, and libguile14-dev 
packages should all include an 'external-source: guide' line.

Also, the libguile14-dev package concerns me.  It should probably be 
called 'libguile14-devel' (not -dev) for consistency with other 
packages.   Also, will libguile14-devel be able to peacefully coexist 
with, say, libguile15-devel?  Or should the -devel package be called 
"guile-devel' instead, so that only the latest version of the 
headers/statlibs/implibs are ever installed?

To me, it sure looks like the latter is true:
   1) the header files are installed into /usr/include/guile/, 
/usr/include/guile-readline/, and /usr/include/libguile/ -- plus, 
there's a /usr/include/libguile.h file (not .../guile14/ .../libguile14/ 
.../guile-readline14/ + /usr/include/libguile14.h) so they will be 
overwritten by "libguile15-devel"
   2) the main libraries in /usr/lib are not versioned in any way -- you 
have libguile.a, libguilereadline.a, and the corresponding .la files.

So, this package should probably be
   guile-devel
NOT
   libguile14-dev

There are also four bigger problems:

1) In libguile14-dev (guile-devel), these files:
     usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-lt-.a
     usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-4-lt-.a
     usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-lt-.la
     usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-4-lt-.la
   Ditto libguile14:
     usr/bin/cygguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-lt--1.dll
     usr/bin/cygguile-srfi-srfi-4-lt--1.dll
     usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-lt-.dll.a
     usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-4-lt-.dll.a

I'm almost positive that something is going terribly wrong here.  Those 
names just do NOT look right.

2) The import libs should be in the -devel package, not the runtime 
package.  That is,
    /usr/lib/libguile.dll.a
    /usr/lib/libguilereadline.dll.a
    /usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-lt-.dll.a
    /usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-4-lt-.dll.a
should be moved from 'libguile14' into 'libguile14-dev'=='guile-devel'

3) What's with the sticky bit on the directories within the archives? 
Is that kosher?

4) guile.m4 is in the wrong place, and in the wrong package.  Currently, 
it is in /usr/aclocal and is part of the libguile14 package.  It should 
be installed into /usr/SHARE/aclocal/ and should be part of the 
'libguile14-dev'=='guile-devel' package.

--Chuck

P.S. However, I do think that guile is a worthwhile addition to the 
cygwin distribution...