From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: bug#22342: Infinite loop when GUILE_FOR_BUILD == guile Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 13:29:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87shugq0k6.fsf@pobox.com> References: <7b233438bdd6e7ff5dd2e30cbb35e9c6@net2air.co> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470569434 31393 195.159.176.226 (7 Aug 2016 11:30:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 11:30:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cc: 22342-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Peter TB Brett Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 07 13:30:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bWMHZ-0005ie-IY for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; 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we capture the full path to GUILE_FOR_BUILD. Cheers :) Andy On Sun 10 Jan 2016 21:28, Peter TB Brett writes: > I ran across an interesting problem while cross-compiling Guile 2.0.11 > with MinGW. > > "GEN guile-procedures.texi" sat in an infinite loop, due to meta/guile > exec-ing itself in a tight loop. > > This was because I had set GUILE_FOR_BUILD to "guile" in my configure > invocation. In the uninstalled_env environment, "guile" is > "meta/guile", not my installed version of guile in my PATH. > > It might be helpful for configure to insist that GUILE_FOR_BUILD is an > absolute path in order to avoid this happening to other naive > cross-compiling users! > > Peter