From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Peter Brett <peter@peter-b.co.uk>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Checking for guile from configure -- forward compat.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:32:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vne13pc.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <we1mhbwadff2.fsf@ssclt003.ee.surrey.ac.uk> (Peter Brett's message of "Fri\, 14 Aug 2009 08\:26\:41 +0100")
Peter Brett <peter@peter-b.co.uk> writes:
> We ended up writing a pile of crufty m4/shell, which:
>
> - checks for guile-1.8.pc
> - if that fails, checks for guile-2.0.pc
> - if that fails, checks for guile-config
>
> http://git.gpleda.org/?p=gaf.git;a=blob;f=m4/geda-guile.m4;hb=HEAD
>
> Ewww.
That looks good to me. Seriously, given the shift from guile-config
to pkg-config, I don't think it's possible to get any simpler than
that; and you've wrapped it very nicely.
Regards,
Neil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-08 6:45 Checking for guile from configure -- forward compat Peter TB Brett
2009-08-08 16:59 ` Linas Vepstas
2009-08-08 19:39 ` Peter TB Brett
2009-08-13 22:12 ` Neil Jerram
2009-08-14 1:36 ` Andreas Rottmann
2009-08-14 21:31 ` Neil Jerram
2009-08-14 7:26 ` Peter Brett
2009-08-14 21:32 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
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