Re: what do to if there is no %nil

[Neil Jerram]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon 18 Jan 2010 15:23, Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I tried building master with the --disable-elisp configure option.
>> When that option is enabled, libguile no longer contains the %nil value.
>> The assembler expects %nil to always exist.
>>
>> I made a quick and dirty modification in 
>> 7beae9f15ac49f144a15d3ebfe80c2f29e43b3ff just to get it to build; but,
>> I'm sure that a prettier solution should implemented.
>
> I saw that patch, and it looked fine to me. I'd also be fine with just
> always building with %nil support (because that's basically all that
> --enable-elisp does, right?), but maybe that's just me...

Yes, I agree.  There are a couple of details in the reader that depend
on SCM_ENABLE_ELISP, that someone should check out.  Subject to
those being OK, I think we could remove the --disable-elisp option.

            Neil