Guile 1.5.6-2 available for review

[Charles Wilson]

Packaging structure looks pretty good to me.  There's a small bug in the 
(native) buildscript [an unclosed 'if' block in prep()] but that's no 
big deal.

As far as the "ridiculously big" patch goes, I wouldn't worry.  There 
are two ways to go
   big patch: easy to create, easier on end-builders (they don't need 
the autotools) -- but it's big
   small patch: it's small, but hard to maintain, and harder on the 
end-builders (they must have the autotools installed)

I dunno, which one would you pick?  :-)

--Chuck

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You've all been quite responsive, and helpful.  I think (hope) that
> all comments and bugs have been addressed in this -2 'release', there
> were quite a few, and I found additional ones too.  [Except maybe for
> the autotool's dependency support, but I figured we could do without a
> whole lot of .dep files.]
> 
> Note that the patch included in the -src tarball is still ridiculously
> big, but that's because I need to run the autotools: most is
> generated configure, Makefile.in and other cruft.
> 
> For lack of standard/better, I'm using the handy Debian package
> changelog mode, no offence intended.
> 
> guile (1.5.6-2) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Fix srfi library names.
>   * Development package now named libguile-devel (previously
>     libguile14-dev).
>   * Import libs *.dll.a now in libguile-devel package.
>   * Add external-source: to all subpackage's .hint files.
>   * Fix permissions (sticky bit) and ownership of tarball contents.
>   * guile.m4 now in libguile-devel:/usr/share/aclocal (previously
>     erroneoulsy in libguile14:/usr/aclocal).
>   * Strip /usr/bin/guile.exe; upstream install apparently doesn't do
>     this.
>   * Prefix generated cross build script with 'cross-'.
>   * Add a native Cygwin buildscript, the generic build script at
>     http://cygwin.com/setup.html, modified by pasting splitting and
>     (sub)packaging from the cross build scripts.  Somewhat tested, runs
>     fine on GNU/Linux.
>   * Fix install of guile.1 manual for guile-1.5.6-release.
> 
>  -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>  Fri,  5 Jul 2002 02:06:38 +0200
> 
>  
> Comments and suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Greetings,
> Jan.
> 
> 
> And here the repeatable data:
> 
> Guile version 1.5.6-2, 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")))'
> 
> 
> [there may be a working setup.ini at http://lilypond.org/cygwin]
> 
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/setup.hint
> 
> sdesc: "The GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter (executable)"
> category: interpreters
> requires: cygwin libguile14
> ldesc: "The GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter (executable)
> Guile, the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension, is a scheme
> implementation designed for real world programming, supporting a
> rich Unix interface, a module system, and undergoing rapid development.
> `guile' is a scheme interpreter that can execute scheme scripts (with a
> #! line at the top of the file), or run as an inferior scheme
> process inside Emacs."
> 
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/guile-1.5.6-2.README
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/guile-1.5.6-2-src.tar.bz2
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/guile-1.5.6-2.tar.bz2
> 
> ===
> 
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/guile-doc/setup.hint
> 
> sdesc: "The GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter (documentation)"
> category: doc
> requires: cygwin
> external-source: guile
> ldesc: "The GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter (documentation)
> This package contains the documentation for guile, including both
> a reference manual (via `info guile'), and a tutorial (via `info
> guile-tut')."
> 
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/guile-doc/guile-doc-1.5.6-2.tar.bz2
> 
> ===
> 
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/libguile14/setup.hint
> 
> sdesc: "The GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter (runtime libraries)"
> category: libs
> requires: cygwin
> external-source: guile
> ldesc: "The GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter (runtime libraries)
> Guile shared object libraries and the ice-9 scheme module.  Guile is
> the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension."
> 
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/libguile14/libguile14-1.5.6-2.tar.bz2
> 
> ===
> 
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/libguile-devel/setup.hint
> 
> sdesc: "Development headers and static libraries for Guile."
> category: devel libs
> requires: cygwin
> external-source: guile
> ldesc: "Development headers and static libraries for Guile.
> `libguile.h' etc. C headers, aclocal macros, the `guile-snarf' and
> `guile-config' utilities, and static `libguile.a' libraries for Guile,
> the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension."
> 
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/libguile-devel/libguile-devel-1.5.6-2.tar.bz2
> 
>