On 10/10/13 00:24, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 07:36:12PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> make-4.0 has this new feature: >> >> * New feature: GNU Guile integration >> This version of GNU make can be compiled with GNU Guile integration. >> GNU Guile serves as an embedded extension language for make. >> See the "Guile Function" section in the GNU Make manual for details. >> Currently GNU Guile 1.8 and 2.0+ are supported. In Guile 1.8 there is no >> support for internationalized character sets. In Guile 2.0+, scripts >> can be >> encoded in UTF-8. >> >> I'd like to enable it so we can hang with the cool kids... Building >> make against guile means we will need to bring it to [core] along with >> its dependencies gc and libunistring. Using optdepends is not an option. >> >> Any objections to this? >> >> Allan > > This seems pretty useless. Is there an immediate want/need for this > somewhere?
Not really. But it won't be long before some project uses it and I get bug reports. And given this is the major new feature for this release, it would be a shame to not add it. How about just compiling make against guile and leaving guile and friends in [extra]? I care if make breaks, but not so much about the guile integration. Allan
