bug#22833: Bug#816123: guile-2.0-libs: guile-procedures.txt is actually port-dependent

2016-08-09 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning writes: > Perhaps I could move it to the %guile-build-info libdir, i.e. here > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/2.0/guile-procedures.txt and make sure > documentation-files includes that in its search list. If there are no substantial objections, I'll consider

bug#24186: setlocale can't be localised

2016-08-09 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 09 Aug 2016 14:15, Zefram writes: > I wrote: >>is my first time compiling a Guile myself. It's failing on a missing >>library for which Debian supplies no package. > > Turns out there was a package. It was complaining about a lack of > "bdw-gc", and Debian doesn't have

bug#22905: GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE produces unavoidable noise

2016-08-09 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 08 Aug 2016 23:02, Zefram writes: > Andy Wingo wrote: >>Serious question tho: what sort of back-compatibility can there be with >>a Guile that only supports latin-1 strings? > > I'd expect that almost any program that runs on Guile 1.8 ought to be > portable, with only

bug#24186: setlocale can't be localised

2016-08-09 Thread Zefram
I wrote: >is my first time compiling a Guile myself. It's failing on a missing >library for which Debian supplies no package. Turns out there was a package. It was complaining about a lack of "bdw-gc", and Debian doesn't have anything of that name, but it does have it under the name "libgc".