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Subject: Re: Checking for guile from configure -- forward compat.
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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