Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

[Gary Bilkus]

On 16/01/2014 15:38, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> On Thursday 16 January 2014 15:06:55 Gary Bilkus wrote:
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> > On 16/01/2014 13:26, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> > > Gary,
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> > > While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the
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> > > vbs script.
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> > > One is that you added my repository/branch in a comment. That's ok
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> > > and makes it easier for others to start.
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> > >
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> > > The second is to install msys-patch. Is there a reason you do this
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> > > in
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> > > the vbs script and not in install-impl.sh ?
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> > > Geert
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> > Hi Geert.
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> > The reason I added in msys-patch to my version of your script is so
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> > that the instructions I posted on the wiki would work, since they
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> > tell you to run your vbs script and then run patch against the 2.6
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> > repo with my patchfile, and that doesn't work if you don't yet have
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> > patch installed.
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> > Of course, as and when there's a git repo with the patches already
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> > incorporated, that step is no longer needed and nor is patch. But it
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> > doesn't do much harm to leave it around, and would make it easier for
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> > people who have to play catch-up the next time a downstream dependency
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> > gets broken.
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> > Gary
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> Hi Gary,
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> That makes sense.
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> The reason I'm very cautious about adding stuff in the bootstrap 
> script is that mingw-get is fairly fragile. The bootstrap script 
> unconditionally installs the most recent version of the various 
> packages, but in the install.sh script we force specific versions. If 
> at some point the most recent version is more recent than what we 
> explicitly set this will probably cause mingw-get to error out. That 
> may or may not be bad but at least pretty confusing to new users.
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> We may fix this by installing very specific versions in the bootstrap 
> script already instead of the latest available. Although that approach 
> risks that these versions will at some point get out of sync with the 
> versions defined in defaults.sh. But IMO that is less of an issue. If 
> this happens the installation script will update the packages to the 
> proper versions without errors the first time it runs.
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> I'll admit this is close to nitpicking. There are bigger issues to 
> solve right now, but I mention it because now I noticed it. I will 
> probably forget later on.
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> Geert
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I completely understand the thinking. That said, I think patch is 
probably a pretty safe program to just download, given its longevity and 
stability at this point, compared to things like say the c compiler!