diff --git a/libguile/DYNAMIC-LINKING b/libguile/DYNAMIC-LINKING index 78fb4e586..5168a9b59 100644 --- a/libguile/DYNAMIC-LINKING +++ b/libguile/DYNAMIC-LINKING @@ -165,24 +165,8 @@ Here is my plan with indications of progress. * I have received Guile libffi glue code from Anthony Green but I have yet to try it out. -I have no ideas how to support the development of packages for Guile -that can be dynamically linked into a running application. Maybe -automake can be used to automate most of the issues. +* There is now some code at -One nice thing is, however, that developers and users of Guile -packages have already installed Guile. So we might able to use Scheme -to describe and handle the build process. I would like that much more -than the arcane shell based implementations of autoconf, automake, -etc. + http//www-nt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/m_mvo/guile-ffi-970501.tar.gz -One more random thought about packages: I think it would be an -advantage if the configuration informations are not contained in a -bunch of files (like the PLUGIN stuff, or like tclConfig.sh) that have -to be found and analyzed, but rather can be accessed via a small -program that can be assumed to be in the PATH. That program (probably -a shell script, but not necessarily) can be queried about several -interesting things like prefix and exec_prefix of libguile or told to -do some tasks like installing a new module (and constructing a new -guile executable if that is necessary). It might even be used for such -generic things as uninstalling Guile (or downloading, configuring, -building and installing the latest version of Guile...) + but it doesn't address G-Wrap.