Re: read-o-phobia and guile packages

[ng0 <ng0@pragmatique.xyz>]

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> Dear Guix,
> 
> some time ago I packaged Freexl for Guix
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=623fb4d1629adfa97e3fe412d394ca0490742f29
> 
> I would like to write a guile module to wrap Freexl and then use my module
> to import data from a bunch of .xls[x] files into a postgresql db
> 
> II would like my guile module to be packaged in Guix of course
> 
> The problem is that I can't make a proper package of a  guile module
> containing also some C code 😕
> 
> I took a look at Paroneayea's guile-gcrypt and I don't understand very much
> of all that m4 macros kung fu
> 
> I think amz3 is having similarly a hard time in packaging his guile based
> wrap around the Wiredtiger C API
> 
> Just to give you an example, in this excerpt (from guile-gcrypt configure.ac
> )
> 
> dnl Prepare a version of $datadir that does not contain references to
> dnl shell variables.  (Borrowed from Sly, which borrowed from Guix...)
> guile_gcrypt_prefix="`eval echo $prefix | sed -e"s|NONE|/usr/local|g"`"
> guile_gcrypt_datadir="`eval eval echo $datadir | sed -e
> "s|NONE|$guile_gcrypt_prefix|g"`"
> AC_SUBST([guile_gcrypt_datadir])
> 
> What does "Prepare a version of $datadir that does not contain references to
> shell variables." mean ?
> 
> I don't even understand the problem being stated here
> 
> And then I think we are substituting "/usr//local" withh NONE in the prefix
> 
> But why ?
> 
> Of course all the remaining configure.ac is obscure to me and the same goes
> for Makefile.am and the contents of the "m4" folder
> 
> It would be useful to have a tutorial about how to do that
> 
> Or even some hints about what certain things mean, in there
> 
> Maybe using a different build system would be easier ?
> 
> Maybe WAF or Meson or any other ?
> My (limited) experience is limited to Leiningen and Boot, on this
> 
> As for the read-o-fobia in the subect: please, don't suggest me to read the
> autotools manual. Please 😕

Do you absolutely require autotools?
I provide a config.mk, Makefile,
and if necessary Makefile.system (for systems other than
GNU/Linux)... this is in all my published and non-public
software.
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ng0
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