[Gd-hackers] Gwydion Dylan on MacOS X

[Thomas Christian Chust]

Hello,

compiling the subversion trunk of Gwydion Dylan on MacOS X I noticed a
few points that could perhaps be improved:

  - I don't think there is any reason why dynamic libraries should be
    disabled for Darwin targets -- simply adding the same
    link-shared-library-command as for Linux to the platforms.descr
    works fine.

  - Recent versions of the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector library
    don't contain the symbol GC_quiet any longer. As there is no code
    in the Gwydion Dylan codebase that actually uses it, the definitions
    and exports GC-quiet and GC-quiet-setter could be removed from the
    garbage-collection library without doing any harm. At least they
    should be replaced with do-nothing stubs.

  - I attach a library that implements finalization module missing from
    the Common-Dylan library to this e-mail in the hope that it is
    useful.

cu,
Thomas