Re: release_1-9-12

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

address@hidden writes:

> I tested it on the various hardware around and the only problem I
> encountered was that on a busybox/ARM some Makefiles are relying on gnu
> touch (using options -r and -t) which was not available under the name
> "touch" but gtouch (installed separately from busybox).

I think the ‘touch -r’ invocations are no longer needed, not sure about
the others.  Andy?

> This could have been simplier with a $(TOUCH) make variable. Idealy,
> configure should have tried to find a suitable touch program but I
> don't think there is already a macro for that.

Yes, we could do something like that.

> Anyway, congrats for this release. As a user that's very pleasant that
> guile seams to progress so fast these days.

Thanks for the report & support!

Ludo’.