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Re: Summary of config.h variables and questions.
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Rob Browning |
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Re: Summary of config.h variables and questions. |
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Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:57:23 -0600 |
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Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> Excellent work! Thank a lot for doing this, Rob!
>
> Since this is a major change, we should not be doing it in the 1.6
> series unless there is a real and specific problem with them (as with
> PACKAGE). For 1.7, we can make more sweeping changes to offer better
> alternatives (see below).
Definitely. I'm only working on the 1.7 tree right now.
> We should keep these, since they have a proper name already:
>
>> GUILE_DEBUG_MALLOC
Right. The main question I had about this one was whether it needed
to be public -- it looks like it isn't used in any of our public
headers, but it was visible via scmconfig.h
> We should deprecate-and-keep these:
>
>> DYNAMIC_LINKING
>> GUILE_ISELECT
>> READER_EXTENSIONS
>> STACK_DIRECTION
>> USE_THREADS
>
> Alternatives are
What do you mean by "Alternatives", an alternative to
"deprecate-and-keep"?
Thanks
--
Rob Browning
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Re: Summary of config.h variables and questions., Kevin Ryde, 2003/03/06