Re: Cant unpack guile1.4 on Windows

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: Hrafnkell Eiriksson <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 10:22:51 +0200
> 
> I cant unpack the guile-1.4.tar.gz archive on Windows with the
> GNU/Cygwin tools nor WinZip. I get the following error:
> address@hidden src]$ tar xfz guile-1.4.tar.gz
> tar: guile-1.4/ice-9/and-let*.scm: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> and an similar error from WinZip
> 
> I guess this is because NTFS and FAT filesystems do not allow
> * as a part of the filename.

Yes, that is exactly the reason.  This is a known problem and fixed in
CVS Guile.

As a workaround, you would need to unpack the archive on a Unix-like
system and then copy it to your Windows machine, renaming and-let*.scm
to and-let-star.scm.  After that, in the copied file, change the line

(define-module (ice-9 and-let*))

to

(define-module (ice-9 and-let-star))

and use 

(use-modules (ice-9 and-let-star))

if you want to use that module.

Or, if you do not need that source file, simply ignore it.  Guile
itself does not depend on it (AFAIK).

HTH,
  'martin