From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Earnie Boyd Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [Autogen-devel] building a libguile client Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:54:46 -0400 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D199D76.24607659@yahoo.com> References: <3D1210F1.2EC8AAD8@yahoo.com> <3D1213A9.727CCD5B@yahoo.com> <3D1241BE.17B9A0F2@pacbell.net> <3D1256FF.7CDE510C@yahoo.com> <3D125729.7E6DA69B@pacbell.net> <3D18FB4D.56978564@yahoo.com> <3D191099.89BA48FD@pacbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025089216 5226 127.0.0.1 (26 Jun 2002 11:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, AutoConf Development , autogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17NAX1-0001MB-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:00:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17NAWt-0000Ey-00; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:00:07 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.32]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17NAU2-0008U1-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from gate1.lci.net (HELO yahoo.com) (earnie?boyd@150.159.224.8 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 2002 10:57:09 -0000 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: Bruce Korb Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:708 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:708 Bruce Korb wrote: > > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > I execute noag-boot.sh and find that configure can't locate > > -lregex for some reason. I do have it in /usr/lib. > > But not in /usr/lib/libc*. > But, couldn't we just look for them in the other common libraries in the configury before complaining and have the configury set the LIBS value appropriately? > > So I export LIBS=-lregex and execute noag-boot.sh again. > > Exactly the thing I was hoping to point you at with the config message: > Yep, that's what clued me in. > > cat >&2 <<'_EOF_' > > I cannot detect POSIX compliant regcomp/regexec routines. > > These are required for AutoGen to work correctly. If you have > > such a library present on your system, you must specify it by > > setting the LIBS environment variable, e.g., "LIBS='-lregex'". > > If you do not have such a library on your system, then you should > > download and install, for example, the one from: > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/rx/ > ... > > > I make distclean, configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared and make. > > Now I find config.h and /usr/include/libguile/scmconfig.h redefine > > a boat load of constants, like PACKAGE_*, is this due to > > a misconfigure of libguile? > > Yes. Unfortunately, there is no trivial > way out of the problem. I think the proper solution is for guile > (and any other package that installs its own config.h file) to > "prefix" the defines: > > http://ac-archive.sf.net/Miscellaneous/ac_create_prefix_config_h.html > > and use those #define-d values from their installed config header. > It would be "good" to prominently document the importance of this > in the autoconf docs. Meanwhile, we have a problem.... > So it sounds as if we need to submit patches to libguile, if not done so already, and argue the case. However, we might need to update autoconf documentation first. > > I finally get to the compile of agen5/cgi-fsm.c and find cgi-fsm.h > > missing. Is this supposed to be generated? The agen5/cgi-fsm.c file is > > stored in CVS, should the corresponding header also be available from > > CVS? > > No. cgi-fsm.c is under CVS because it contains some edited source, > though it is mostly generated. Looks like I left cgi-fsm.h off the > list of generated source. Sorry. It will be updated in a few minutes. > I'll also send it as an attachment under separate cover. Thanks, Earnie. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel