Re: request review: branch "wingo"

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue 31 Mar 2009 14:31, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>>> Besides, there's the thread about cross-compilation where we mention
>>>> building the compiler with an already installed Guile that may have an
>>>> inappropriate stack limit.
>>>
>>> I don't think that is relevant. Since the Guile that is running would
>>> choose a stack size appropriate for it, based on the host getrlimit,
>>> there would be no problem.
>>
>> The already-installed Guile wouldn't use getrlimit(2) since that would
>> be an old 1.8.
>
> You probably saw the other response already, but I don't think that the
> compiler will work with 1.8 as a "host".

Yes, I saw it right after, so forget my remark.

> You'd have to install a 1.9 on
> the host, and somehow tell it that it should compile .go files with the
> endianness of the target.

OK.

Thanks,
Ludo'.