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Re: New Guile VM

To: "Dale P. Smith" <dpsm at en dot com>
Subject: Re: New Guile VM
From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
Date: 17 Aug 2000 09:30:11 -0600
Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <E13PEgR-00059a-00@mdj.nada.kth.se> <rfi4s4karwi.fsf@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu> <00Aug17.110324edt.17025@gateway.elms.k12.oh.us>
Reply-To: tromey at cygnus dot com

Dale> If Guile is going to be embedded in things like emacs and gdb,
Dale> and some of the build tools like autoconf and friends are going
Dale> to be rewritten to use guile instead of m4 or tcl; how are we
Dale> going to build guile?

Typically you don't need these tools to bootstrap.  For instance
autoconf generates a configure script that requires various shell
tools, but not m4.  Likewise automake generates a Makefile.in but
distributed packages which use automake don't require perl.

Tom

References:
- New Guile VM
  - From: Mikael Djurfeldt
- Re: New Guile VM
  - From: Marcus G. Daniels
- Re: New Guile VM
  - From: Dale P. Smith

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