Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:38:24 -0500 From: "Michael Johnson" <ahze@freebsd.org> To: amatus@gnu.org Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about updating guile to 1.8 Message-ID: <b2203fed0802270538k68ee6985l3affb475ecea6b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <963757.68467.qm@web30005.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <1203900334.10717.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <963757.68467.qm@web30005.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Amatus <c11h15no2@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 14:24 -0800, Amatus wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > I'm working on updating lang/guile to 1.8. > > > > Excellent. > > > > > I've basically got that > > > working but there are several other ports that refer to > > > ${LOCALBASE}/share/guile/1.6 that will need to be fixed. These are: > > > security/lsh > > > lang/slib-guile > > > finance/gnucash > > > I've just started doing port development so I'd like to ask what is > > the > > > correct way to fix these ports. What do you guys think of the > > attached > > > patch for lang/slib-guile? > > > > This patch is okay. But note that GUILE_VERSION is not expanded > > until > > it is used in sh. That is, GUILE_VERSION does NOT equal "1.8". You > > will not be able to make it equal "1.8" until it is interpreted by > > sh. > > The way you're using it here is fine, though. > > > > As for the command itself, it should probably be: > > > > `${LOCALBASE}/bin/guile-config info guileversion | ${CUT} -f 1-2 -d > > .` > > > > Are you in a position to be run-time testing these ports with the new > > guile? Once you're done with your work, do you want to be the guile > > maintainer? > > > > Joe > > I realize it's not expanded immediately. I know in GNU make there is > the $(shell) syntax for doing that but I didn't find a way to do that > in BSD make. Do you know the Right Way? > I use gnucash regularly so I will give that a good exercising before I > submit a patch. The other packages I will "smoke test," as they say, to > make sure they don't explode when I run them. > I'm ok with being the maintainer for guile. Thanks for your help. > > Would you want to pick up maintainership of gnucash also? Michael > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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