guile 2.0 [was: Obsolete dependency report, 2015-Mar-19]

[Marco Atzeri]

On 6/8/2015 11:43 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-03-25 at 15:42 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 18:14 -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 23:15 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>>> I built latest guile but make check fails on some modules,
>>>> and I need to investigate.
>>>
>>> By "latest guile" do you mean 2.0.x?  We'll need to work out a way to
>>> have both 1.8 and 2.0 in the distro for a while, as not all
>>> guile-dependent packages have been ported yet to the latter.  Let's
>>> discuss this further when you're ready.
>>>
>> Noted.
>> I am currently testing 2.0.11 but ffi test is failing
>
> False alarm.  The test is trying to load strerror(3) from the guile
> process itself; that doesn't work on Cygwin because our dlsym(3) does
> not resolve symbols in dependent DLLs (contrary to POSIX IIUC).
>
> --
> Yaakov
>

noted.
After octave rebuild I will package it.
Any preference of the header location ?


Also 1.8.8 need a rebuild as some dll's are in
/usr/lib instead of /usr/bin