guile 1.4.1.86 (snap) available

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

testing framework now liberated...  woo hoo!  (you can use "guile-tools
run-all-tests" for your own non-guile projects and get the tally for
PASS, FAIL, UPASS, XFAIL, UNTESTED, UNSUPPORTED, UNRESOLVED or ERROR
results.  SKIP is also available but not tallied -- patches welcome.)
tarball in dir:

  http://www.glug.org/tmp/2002-09/

new NEWS excerpt follows.

thi


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* New module (ice-9 testing-lib)

This is actually the familiar (test-suite lib) module that has been
distributed for a long time, now repackaged for installation and general use.
Similarly, the driver program formerly known as test-suite/guile-test is now
available as one of the guile-tools.  The guile-specific parts of this are
in test-suite/prologue.scm.  After build, do:

    pre-inst-guile-tools run-all-tests --help

for more info.

* (bit-extract N ...) now signals out-of-range error for N < 0

* bug fix: (expt 0 0) => 1

* New configure option: --enable-site-dir=DIR

Normally, configuration sets scheme_site_dir to be ${datadir}/guile/site,
but you can select another directory to use instead.  The site directory
is available to C code as SCM_SITE_DIR, and to Scheme code as:

  (assq-ref %guile-build-info 'scheme_site_dir)     ; note underscores

It is available to third party programs via the GUILE_SITE_DIR configure.ac
macro, which sets var GUILE_SITE and does AC_SUBST on it.

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