Re: RFS: slib/3b6-2 -- Portable Scheme library
Nick Gasson <nick@nickg.me.uk> writes:
> On 01/31/21 18:21 pm, Göran Weinholt wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying it out with Guile and thought that the following should work,
>> but it doesn't:
>>
>> | GNU Guile 3.0.4
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>> |
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>> | This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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>> |
>> | Enter `,help' for help.
>> | scheme@(guile-user)> (import (ice-9 slib))
>> | scheme@(guile-user)> (require 'soundex)
>> | ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>> | In procedure open-file: No such file or directory: "/usr/share/guile/site/3.0/slibcat"
>
> That's expected because the Debian Guile package handles generating its
> slibcat in guile-libs.postinst. I didn't want to interfere with that by
> changing Guile's (implementation-vicinity) and shipping a prebuilt
> slibcat as I do for the other Schemes. That said, slib catalog
> generation is currently disabled in the guile-3.0 postinst, presumably
> because the slib in Debian didn't support it at the time.
Okay, fair enough. And yes, that seems to be the case.
I've uploaded slib 3b6-2 for you.
> We could fix this either by updating guile-libs.postinst, or by removing
> the slib logic from the guile package completely and shipping a prebuilt
> slibcat in the slib package. I guess that's up to Rob?
Indeed.
Rob, what's your take on this, how do you want to handle slib in Guile?
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