Re: ITP: Guile 1.5.6

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>]

Charles Wilson wrote:

> 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.
I'm sure that Chuck meant to say 'external-source: guile'

Now, as for building from source, the script included in the source 
package is not a valid Cygwin script.  It seems to be a 
cross-compilation script.  Would it be possible to adapt the generic 
build script from the package building page?  Look at 
http://cygwin.com/setup.html and scroll down to the section entitled 
"Method Two".  Meanwhile, I will try and follow the script to manually 
build it, to see if it works.

Cheers,
Nicholas