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btdmaster

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Registered: 2021-02-03

Posts: 5

Guile 3.0

Hey there,

I know this is (partially) an implicitly forbidden topic but is there any chance for the Guile package to be brought forward to 3.0? I have tried very hard to build guile-git myself but I could not figure out how to enable parallel builds, so could the official guile package be built with a more recent version?

Guile is a great high-performance implementation of Scheme and I would love to have its more recent additions to reach the repos.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: Guile 3.0

Looks like guile-git uses make as build system, and that's easy to parallelize, just make a small edit to /etc/makepkg.conf 

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepk … pile_times

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btdmaster

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Registered: 2021-02-03

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Re: Guile 3.0

Hey, I've tried changing #MAKEFLAGS="-j2" into MAKEFLAGS="-j$(nproc)", both in `makepkg -si` and /etc/makepkg.conf and this still only uses one thread. The only thing that worked was editing the PKGBUILD itself. (Perhaps the Makefile ignores MAKEFLAGS?)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: Guile 3.0

options=('!strip' '!makeflags' 'libtool')

Yep, guile-git overrides makeflags, although the extra/guile package doesn't do that.

Maybe at some point build failed using multiple jobs.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

(A works at time B)  && (time C > time B ) ≠  (A works at time C)