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

[Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>]

Well, I shouldn't since autoconf should deal with it automatically. I
remember I did this just because of a workaround, at that time Guile-2.2
has issue to detect the correct version number, and I was hurry to release.
Long time ago, I forget to remove it.

Best regards


On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 02:24 Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 08 2020, Nala Ginrut wrote:
>
> > Finally I found the problem is that I left a m4/guile.m4 in Artanis for
> > some reasons. It's solved by remove it.
> >
> > Thanks for all the helps!
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 2:56 PM Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am far from an expert at Autoconf, and it is entirely possible that I
> am leading you astray by mentioning this, but the Autoconf manual
> actually covers why you might want to include an updated copy of
> guile.m4 in your package instead of removing it entirely.
>
> It even uses guile as an example.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Local-Macros.html
>
> Long story short, if you would like Artanis to be usable on older
> versions of guile that might include the older version of the guile.m4
> file that doesn't work then including the fancier new guile.m4 file in
> your package will make Artanis potentially work without a guile upgrade.
> That's almost certainly how the guile.m4 file got in your tree in the
> first place.  aclocal --install probably got ran at some point and it
> included it.
>
> In this particular case, it might not be worth it to ship a local
> version of a file that will also be included with guile.  As you have
> already seen local m4 files is a bit of foot gun.  They are easy to
> forget, and although there are tools that will update your development
> files automagically, you have to remember to use the tools.
>
> Plus, that way you don't have to worry about testing to see if Artanis
> actually works with old versions of guile :).
>
> Thanks for your work.
>
> Jason Earl
>