bug#26183: patch for guile-2.2.0 on FreeBSD 11.0

[Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>]

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> On Apr 19, 2017, at 7:20 AM, Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon 20 Mar 2017 02:39, Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Attached is a patch to apply to guile-2.2.0 to compile on FreeBSD 11.0
>> Changes
>> 1) updated README to indicate which extra FreeBSD packages need to be installed
>> 2) minor change to configure.ac (implies autoconf needs to run) to use bdw-gc-threaded instead of bdw-gc
>> With this, I had successful configure, gmake, and gmake check.
> 
> Applied with some adaptations.  Please see git master and test.  Thanks!
> 
> Andy

Attached is patch file with suggested changes: the README was not quite correct, and “pkg install texinfo” also required.

Matt


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diff --git a/README b/README
index cffee2253..20a56fc92 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -125,20 +125,22 @@ treatment.  If you can send us fixes for these problems, we'd be
 grateful.
 
 FreeBSD 11.0:
-  For a build supporting threads, please `pkg install' the following
+  Please `pkg install' the following:
     - pkgconf : provides pkg-config
+    - texinfo : provides makeinfo
     - gmake : /usr/bin/make does not work
-    - boehm-gc-threaded : needed for threaded support
 
-  Configure as:
+  If you want a Guile with threads, then install boehm-gc-threaded and
+  configure as:
 
     ./configure --with-bdw-gc=bdw-gc-threaded
 
-  Alternately if you want a Guile without threads, then install boehm-gc
+  Alternately if you want a Guile without threads, then install boehm-gc 
   and configure as:
 
     ./configure --without-threads
 
+
 Guile specific flags Accepted by Configure =================================
 
 If you run the configure script with no arguments, it should examine