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

[Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>]

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:

> 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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