Re: mes: Support guile 3.0

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Vagrant Cascadian writes:

Hi!

> On 2020-10-06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>> Vagrant Cascadian writes:
>>>> On 2020-07-27, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>> I've been meaning to test building mes with guile 3.0, but haven't
>>>> gotten around to it yet. Figured I'd mention it here to keep track of
>>>> it.
>>
>> Thanks for looking at this!
>>
>> I've added initial guile-3.0 support to master, commit
>> fe60f9a3f783b4116f803dc614149af672d16300.
>>
>> Although mescc does not run correctly yet with guile-3, that may not be
>> strictly needed to build it: we only use Guile to configure, and for
>> debugging.
>
> ok!

See: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2020-10/msg00001.html

>> This is a problem with the parsing of C by Mes+Nyacc -- I have seen a
>> bug very much like this when using Nyacc > 1.00.2.  Could it be that
>> you are using a newer Nyacc?
>
> I was probably testing with newer versions of nyacc.  The versions I
> currently have in Debian are 1.00.2 (built with guile 2.2) in unstable,

Okay, 1.00.2 works for me.

> and 1.03.0 (built with guile 3.0, i think) in experimental.

Contrary to what the numbering suggests (to me), 1.03 has pretty big
difference.  This needs some debugging and development work that I'm not
planning to do real soon.

> I doubt anything else depends on nyacc in Debian, so I have flexibility
> with when and how to update nyacc at least. :)

Good!  Even if it's a downgrade to 1.00.2? ;)

Janneke

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