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

[Peter TB Brett <peter@peter-b.co.uk>]

Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/8/8 Peter TB Brett <peter <at> peter-b.co.uk>:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Currently, there appear to be two ways to check for the presence of
> > Guile:
> >
> >  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, [guile-1.8])
> 
> I believe that the following should work:
> 
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile >= 1.8.3)
> 
> or something like that. Grepping various configure.in
> I find the following:
> 
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SQLITE3, sqlite3 >= 3.0.0)
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES([HUNSPELL], [hunspell])
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBJDK, libjdk-1.5 >= $LIBJDK_REQUIRED)

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'.

Cheers,

                                 Peter