test patch for slib3
Andreas Rottmann
a.rottmann at gmx.at
Mon Mar 29 20:15:00 EST 2004
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> "James A. Treacy" <treacy at debian.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:42:00PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> Can someone with slib3 try this patch and make sure it actually
>>> solves the problem with gnucash failing to start? I don't have
>>> slib3 around here to test with. I suspect it will work just
>>> fine, as "format" is part of the core guile now. Please let
>>> me know.
>>
>> It turns out that the Debian slib maintainer added 'format' back
>> in in a new upload. Anyway, if no one else gets to it first, I
>> should be able to check out the patch this weekend.
>
> Thanks. Debian may have worked around the slib maintainer, but
> we shouldn't depend on that. So, testing would be wonderful
> if you (or anyone) can get to it.
>
I'd add an (use-modules (ice-9 format)) to be safe.
>From the Guile reference manual:
,----
| The `format' procedure, to be found in module `(ice-9 format)', can
| do all this, and even more. If you are a C programmer, you can think
| of this procedure as Guile's `fprintf'.
`----
The "default" format is simple-format, which only understands ~S and ~A.
Andy
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