[Chicken-users] Re: MacOS X is its' own beast

2007-05-16 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
Kon Lovett wrote: > [...] > There is POSIX support via the CRT library. A compatibility attempt. > [...] Hello Kon, as far as I know, the only thing similar to POSIX in the Win32 CRT library is file descriptor emulation. And that's almost entirely useless because it supports none of the more adv

Re: [Chicken-users] parameter limit

2007-05-16 Thread foobar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi all, > > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:17:57AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: > >> sxml-tools uses the rather questionable idiom of "(apply append" >> and "(apply string-append" at various places, which (I believe) is >> repsonsible for the argument limit error. >> >

Re: [Chicken-users] file-exists? on Windows

2007-05-16 Thread felix winkelmann
On 11 May 2007 16:18:15 -0300, Mario Domenech Goulart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Shouldn't (file-exists? ".\\") return the path to the current directory? So, would a simple removal of a trailing backslash be sufficient for the moment? cheers, felix _

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-16 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/15/07, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: > We've had a feature complete, field tested, all but bug free CMake > build for awhile now. It took 1 man year to produce. It is the only > way to produce the MSVC versions of Chicken, and it is preferred for > Min

Re: [Chicken-users] file-exists? on Windows

2007-05-16 Thread John Cowan
felix winkelmann scripsit: > So, would a simple removal of a trailing backslash be sufficient for > the moment? At least remove trailing slashes too. There is really no reason for Chicken application programmers to jump through hoops to use slashes on Unix and backslashes on Windows, as slashes

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: MacOS X is its' own beast

2007-05-16 Thread Raffael Cavallaro
On May 16, 2007, at 3:55 AM, Thomas Christian Chust wrote: But I would consider the Mach interfaces internal API and only the BSD, Carbon and Cocoa interfaces public API, because it would be pretty tedious to write anything useful using only the Mach interfaces and because otherwise I also woul

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-16 Thread John Cowan
Brandon Van Every scripsit: > Having the 2nd invocation of "make install" repeat the build from > scratch is not that important a bug, and all evidence says it's a > Linux specific bug. I'd like to see if it happens on a Solaris or BSD system. I've been wondering if it might not be a general bug

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-16 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/16/07, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: > Having the 2nd invocation of "make install" repeat the build from > scratch is not that important a bug, and all evidence says it's a > Linux specific bug. I'd like to see if it happens on a Solaris or BSD system.

[Chicken-users] CMake make install bug on Linux (was Mac OS X static library names)

2007-05-16 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/16/07, Brandon Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/16/07, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brandon Van Every scripsit: > > > Having the 2nd invocation of "make install" repeat the build from > > scratch is not that important a bug, and all evidence says it's a > > Linux spe

Re: [Chicken-users] CMake make install bug on Linux (was Mac OS X static library names)

2007-05-16 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
On Wed, 16 May 2007 16:16:33 -0700 "Brandon Van Every" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/16/07, Brandon Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 5/16/07, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Brandon Van Every scripsit: > > > > > > > Having the 2nd invocation of "make install"

Re: [Chicken-users] CMake make install bug on Linux (was Mac OS X static library names)

2007-05-16 Thread John Cowan
Brandon Van Every scripsit: > Using Darcs head, I cannot reproduce the bug on Fedora Core 6, even > when overwriting an installed Chicken. "make install" does what it's > supposed to do, no matter how many times invoked. So, now I need you > Linux guys to see if the bug still exists in Darcs hea

[Chicken-users] pthread interaction

2007-05-16 Thread Dan Muresan
Hi all, is it safe to call (from Chicken) a C function that spawns off a pthread before returning? Are there any restrictions on what that thread can do, e.g. w.r.t. malloc() ? Cheers, Dan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org ht