From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Checking for guile from configure -- forward compat. Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:31:03 +0100 Message-ID: <8763cq13s8.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <3ae3aa420908080959w13c1716cj6e2593f5418f451e@mail.gmail.com> <87my635poi.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> <87eirfi3ca.fsf@delenn.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250285497 27199 80.91.229.12 (14 Aug 2009 21:31:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, Peter TB Brett To: Andreas Rottmann Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 14 23:31:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mc4Mv-0008NB-Kq for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:31:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36361 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mc4Mv-00006s-3k for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mc4Mg-00005K-Qg for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mc4Mb-00004r-F8 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59889 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mc4Mb-0008WU-9u for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:40766) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mc4Ma-0004vL-V4 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2941F69DD; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:31:04 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48B338021; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:31:03 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87eirfi3ca.fsf@delenn.lan> (Andreas Rottmann's message of "Fri\, 14 Aug 2009 03\:36\:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:7405 Archived-At: Andreas Rottmann writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> Peter TB Brett writes: >> >>> I'm perfectly aware of how to use pkg-config, and I think I already pointed out >>> that this isn't very useful because Guile provides a 'guile-1.8' pkg-config >>> module file, but not one for 'guile'. >> >> So what does pkg-config recommend for a situation like this? Or does >> it not support having two versions installed at the same time? >> > IIRC/IIUC, there can be only a single version (with a given .pc file > name) installed at the same time; if you want multiple versions > parallel-installable, you have to use different .pc file names. Thanks. The pkg-config man page says the same thing, so I'm sure you're right. Neil