From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: msematman@myopera.com Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile 2.0.7 installation problems: configure issues libltdl error Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:17:47 +0100 Message-ID: <1354882667.27227.140661163072321.02BFD8AA@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1354812087.24528.140661162718149.146BBA79@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87boe7asre.fsf@tines.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354882683 27675 80.91.229.3 (7 Dec 2012 12:18:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 12:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 07 13:18:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tgwsg-0004qV-IM for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:18:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgwsU-0007Bn-9i for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:18:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgwsN-0007AP-QF for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgwsG-0003xD-6g for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:17:55 -0500 Original-Received: from new1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.221]:32992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgwsG-0003x3-1A for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id A203A548; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:17:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from web5.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.215]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:17:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:cc:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to :references; s=smtpout; bh=iTfRwEJuS7MniO4voVdiXuWSx+s=; b=ZRJoh g8dnB++dJLyiWHEngIgCNm6g/Z5WcZO+Cmral8uoHUqDSGR9HjRaSjjXqPoo+anE EQ/NlEIbnx464g/WE2tJZHJm+5ArhggFr1rAD0HNqkA2vsZPczSyAMTrZWPaGgup BNTd6uHtGxtS9D5c1aURGa7J1Y1UyN/OqvE1Bk= Original-Received: by web5.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 252624C21FB; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 07:17:47 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-Enc: rdw4zoB8FyiqEOH9HJvQMiSX8Q86B7OFoa7oMBT1NCMJ 1354882667 X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-de1b4ceb In-Reply-To: <87boe7asre.fsf@tines.lan> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 66.111.4.221 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:9742 Archived-At: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012, at 08:24 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > msematman@myopera.com writes: > > Last line of configure output: > > ******************************** > > ... > > ... > > ... > > checking for libltdl... no > > > > and an error is issued complaining about the absence of libltdl. > > > > However, libltdl exists on the system: > > **************************** > > ls -l /usr/lib64/*ltdl* > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 21 2011 /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.3 -> > > libltdl.so.3.1.4 > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29952 Dec 16 2009 /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.3.1.4 > > Most likely, this is because you don't have /usr/include/ltdl.h, which > is needed to compile programs against libltdl. > > Modern distributions typically separate libraries into at least two > packages: the main package, and a "development package" which includes > header files, etc, needed during compilation. For example, on > Debian-derived systems, the main package is called "libltdl7", and the > development package is called "libltdl-dev". > > To compile Guile, you will need the development packages for all of the > libraries needed for Guile. > > If you cannot persuade the administrator of your system to install the > needed packages, then there are a number of ways to proceed. The most > straightforward is to compile+install the needed libraries from source > code into your home directory, and then build Guile against those > locally-installed libraries. There are a few gotchas, but it is doable. > > Regards, > Mark Thanks Ludo', Mark for the quick responses. /usr/include on the machine does not contain ltdl.h, but /usr/share/libtool/libltdl/ does. I tried the following combo: CC=gcc CFLAGS="-I/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib64/" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local Still the same result, the exact same error. A tiny excerpt from the config.log (if somebody wants more of it, let me know): ... ... configure:40108: checking for libltdl configure:40130: gcc -o conftest -I/usr/share/libtool/libltdl/ -L/usr/lib64/ conftest.c -lltdl >&5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lltdl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:40130: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h */ | #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU Guile" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "guile" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.0.7" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU Guile 2.0.7" | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "bug-guile@gnu.org" | #define PACKAGE_URL "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/" ... ... ... -- msematman@myopera.com