Re: configuring guile packages [was: GNU Guile 2.9.8 Released [beta]]

[Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>]

Hi Matt!
Thanks for the help.
However, it seems doesn't work for me. I think your solution is to solve
mixed guile version detection issue, right?
I'm building it in docker, a pure clean Debian10 environment. Hmm...

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 7:29 AM Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 1/3/20 10:44 AM, Matt Wette wrote:
> > On 1/3/20 6:53 AM, Matt Wette wrote:
> >>>  I am running into other issues, however, when there is a
> >>> guile in my path that appears before anything else, but a guile-2
> >>> that appears from another directory.  I am working to add
> >>> --with-guile to fix that.  I'm having problems checking against
> >>> 2.0.14, for example.
> > I have been working on my configures.  I have separate guile-2.0.14,
> > -2.2.4 and -2.9.8 installs.
> > To get everything to work I ended up with the following configure.ac
> > and nyacc.m4.  Not beautiful
> > but it's working for 2.0.14, 2.2.X and 2.9.8.
> >
> > ===== snip from configure.ac =====
> > m4_include([./pkg.m4])
> > m4_include([./guile.m4])
> > m4_include([./nyacc.m4])
> >
> > AC_ARG_WITH(guile, [    --with-guile            path to binary],
> >             ,with_guile=unspecified)
> >
> > if test "_$with_guile" != "_unspecified"; then
> >   GUILE=$with_guile
> >   GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION=`$GUILE -c "(display (effective-version))"`
> >   guile_libdir=`$GUILE -c "(display (assq-ref %guile-build-info
> > 'libdir))"`
> >   PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=$guile_libdir/pkgconfig
> >   PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
> >   export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
> > else
> >   GUILE_PKG([3.2 3.0 2.9 2.2 2.0])
> >   GUILE_PROGS
> > fi
> >
> > GUILE_SITE_DIR
> > GUILE_SITE_GO_DIR
> > GUILE_DATA_DIR
> >
> > ==========================
>
> So I changed configure arg from "--with-guile=/path/to/guile" to
> "GUILE=/path/to/guile"
> AC_ARG_VAR([GUILE],[path to guile binary])
> if test "x$ac_env_GUILE_set" = "xset"; then
>    GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION=`$GUILE -c "(display (effective-version))"`
>    guile_libdir=`$GUILE -c "(display (assq-ref %guile-build-info
> 'libdir))"`
>    PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
>    PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=$guile_libdir/pkgconfig
>    export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
> else
>    GUILE_PKG([3.0 2.9 2.2 2.0])
>    GUILE_PROGS
> fi
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