Re: Pkgsrc patches: patch-ag

[Greg Troxel]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Without the patch, `c-tokenize.c' includes *only* <inttypes.h> (see my
> first comment above.)

Right you are - it may be that this is just confusion from long ago.

>> Does guile have a position on supporting systems that don't conform to
>> C99?  I'm wondering if I should try to figure this out and get a fix
>> that is reasonable (I agree this one is gross and likely wrong), or just
>> punt.
>
> Guile is written using C89 code.  It does use C99 headers when
> available, but does not usually rely on them I think.
>
> I believe the "position" is roughly to be portable to any platform with
> Guile users.  :-)

Yes, that sounds great.  I have just been running into "claims C99 but
sort of broken" fairly often lately, and wanted guidance - it's
difficult trying to deal with pkgsrc patches for platforms I don't have.