ITP: Guile 1.5.6

[Nicholas Wourms]

Charles Wilson wrote:

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> Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
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>> Hi List,
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>> Last night, I've eventually succeeded in building guile-1.5.6, with
>> shared object libraries for Cygwin.
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>> Guile version 1.5.6, is now available for testing at:
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>>     http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile
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>> After a successful installation of guile (and libguile14), you should
>> be able to run, eg,
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>>     guile -c '(begin (write (string-append "hello: " (version) "\n")))'
>>
>> May we have your votes (and comments) please.
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>> 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 
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>> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/guile/libguile14-dev/libguile14-dev-1.5.6-1.tar.bz2 
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> 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