2017-06-04 6:55 GMT+02:00 Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>:

> Jelle,
>
> thank you for your suggestion
>
> But there's something I don't understand
>
> the suggestion to add
>
> --with-freexl-prefix=$GUIX_ENVIRONMENT
>
> fixes my guile-freexl but is nor necessary in guile-gcrypt
>
> why ?
>
> 2017-06-03 22:49 GMT+02:00 Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>:
>
>>
>> Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > checking for libfreexl-config... no
>> > checking libfreexl's library directory...
>> > checking for libfreexl shared library name... libfreexl
>> > checking whether libfreexl can be dynamically loaded... no
>> > configure: error: GNU libfreexl does not appear to be usable; see
>> > `--with-libfreexl-prefix' and `README'.
>> >
>> The following command seemed to run to completion for me:
>> [env]$ ./configure --with-freexl-prefix=$GUIX_ENVIRONMENT
>>
>> Maybe check out the following link, by coincidence about gcrypt as well
>> ;-).
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-02/msg00062.html
>>
>>
>
> this is an excerpt from running configure in guile-gcrypt
>
> checking for guile-config... /home/catonano/.guix-profile/bin/guile-config
> checking for libgcrypt-config... /gnu/store/1y54p19lvz3rh6a5dyynnffn9dbal2
> li-profile/bin/libgcrypt-config
> checking libgcrypt's library directory... /gnu/store/
> hag795ji8p9vqikwp8cibfibpsa39s3n-libgcrypt-1.7.6/lib
> checking for libgcrypt shared library name... /gnu/store/
> hag795ji8p9vqikwp8cibfibpsa39s3n-libgcrypt-1.7.6/lib/libgcrypt
>
>
>
> As you can see it checks that "...bin/libgcrypt-config" is present AND it
> checks the "shared library name"
>
>
> Now this is configure from my guile-freexl
>
> checking for guile-config... /home/catonano/.guix-profile/bin/guile-config
> checking for freexl shared library name... /gnu/store/
> 13p9jpf8gp3mg414az1dsf59vw2hyyw2-profile/lib/libfreexl
>
> as you can see it DOESN'T look for any ...bin/freexl-config AND it doesn't
> look for the library shared name
>
> why ?
>
> It is substantially the same repo, I cloned it and changed the strings
> "gcrypt" to "freexl"
>
> That's all I did
>


Ok, I resigned myself to not understanding what I'm doing and I adopted
your suggestion

The configure phase now passes

sigh