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<daviid>lloda: guile-cairo 'make distcheck' pass now - i had a hard time, but finally got it right ... so i'll prepare a series of patches, send an email and will ping you to double check, push and try a make distcheck on your machine ...

<butingtaon>Hello everyone, i was trying to install guile-reader on debian 11 from the tarball on https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile-reader.git/ but when i tried generationg ./configure using autoconf, i keep getting

<butingtaon>"configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

<butingtaon> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.

<butingtaon> See the Autoconf documentation."

<butingtaon>oh that multiline message didnt send how i intended it to, i'm sorry about that

<butingtaon>anyways, any help is appreciated, thank you so much in advance

<butingtaon>Looks like running `autoreconf --install --force` is the way to go here

<butingtaon>although now autoreconf is complaining that it cant find 'build-aux/config.rpath'

<butingtaon>based on this github issue https://github.com/SSSD/ding-libs/issues/8 doing "touch 'build-aux/config.rpath'" does the trick.

<lloda>winter: at run time, but only once. It's a safety in case the argument is used more than once in the macro body

<winter>lloda: why would that be an issue/undesirable?

<winter>why would using just x be an issue? it's one argument all the same, no?

<lloda>the argument could be something like (apply f args), so if you use it multiple times, you are calling f multiple times

<lloda>ultimately it depends on what the macro is meant to do, but a lot of the time, one evaluation is what you want

<winter>ahhh, right, since this is just token pasting in the end

<winter>thank you

<lloda>👍

<mirai>Is there a better/conciser way to write (lambda (x y) (foo x (bar y))) ?

<mirai>I think cut/cute from SRFI-26 doesn't apply here

<drakonis>make a macro, i suppose?

<pinoaffe>mirai: you can do (compose (cut foo x <>) bar)

<pinoaffe>whoops, nope

<lloda>you don't need a macro for that unless if foo/bar aren't themselves macros

<lloda>s/unless if/if

<lloda>i mean compose is a normal function

<pinoaffe>mirai: you can do something along the lines of https://bpa.st/USC6I

<pinoaffe>mirai: or something like https://bpa.st/64K3W

<mirai>interesting

<sneek>wb dsmith :D

<dsmith>sneek, botsnack

<sneek>:)

<dsmith>!uptime

<sneek>I've been running for 2 days

<sneek>This system has been up 2 days, 17 hours, 53 minutes

<haugh>Does anyone have an example of working with guile-json and the GNU extension to SRFI-9? I really love both the JSON mapping features of the former (especially the nested record recognition) and the functional setters of the latter, but they don't seem compatible, especially since guile-json is built on mutable records.

<haugh>Right now it looks like I'll be maintaining a separate conversion layer between JSON records and functional records and I'm not sure how to manage it.

<count3rmeasure>haugh: is it public anywhere? I'd love to look at that

<haugh>count3rmeasure, sorry, i'm in experimentation and long-term planning right now, and anything serious I write in the domain is likely to be someone else's property. I wonder if aconchillo is interested in supporting the GNU extensions directly, though. That could be an interesting contribution, but right now I'm just trying to get a better picture of how people use this stuff in practice.

<count3rmeasure>haugh: perfectly understand, good luck

<dsmith>198 nicks. Never been so close to 200!

<dsmith>200!

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