Re: Upcoming 1.6.5 release.

[Andreas Vögele]

Michael Tuexen writes:

> This seems to be related to the problem I see on Mac OS X: I can build 
> and use the static version, but not the dynamic version. [...] This 
> would definitely be good if building dynamic libs is supported.

There's a Fink port called guile16 that supports shared libraries. The 
current CVS version does also work under Mac OS X. Furthermore, the 
code that uses _NSGetEnviron is already in the 1.6 branch. Only the 
corresponding checks are missing from configure.in.

Guile snapshots are available at 
<ftp://ftp.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/guile/snapshots>.
You can unpack and build the snapshot with the following  commands 
under Mac OS X:

tar xzf guile-core.tar.gz
cd guile-core-20040808
sh configure
echo >>config.h "#define HAVE__NSGETENVIRON 1"
echo >>config.h "#define HAVE_CRT_EXTERNS_H 1"
make
make check

One check will fail. That's the putenv problem mentioned in my previous 
message. If you want to get rid of this error edit libguile/posix.c. 
Look for the function scm_putenv and replace the putenv call with 
something like

if (strchr (ptr, '='))
  rv = putenv (ptr);
else
  {
    unsetenv (ptr);
    rv = 0;
  }