On Jul 4, 2015 5:14 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> "Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <gnu@clacke.user.lysator.liu.se> skribis:

> >> > I'm working on s6, and it
> >> > expects -lexecline to work. Currently I'm feeding its configure
> >> > "--with-lib=.../lib/execline", would be nice to get that done in
> >> > execline instead. Modifying LIBRARY_PATH has no effect, what do I
need
> >> > to do to override gcc?
> >>
> >> LIBRARY_PATH is automatically set to contains all the lib/
> >> sub-directories, so nothing special is needed.  The problem probably
> >> lies elsewhere, maybe in the build system of s6.
> >
> > If I do 'guix environment s6' with s6 having execline as an input, only
> > .../...execline.../lib is in LIBRARY_PATH, .../lib/execline isn't.
>
> I see.  Then I think passing --with-lib to s6’s configure script is the
> right thing.
>
> Alternately, if you think other packages will need this in the future,
> you could pass execline’s configure something like --libdir=PREFIX/lib
> to have the library installed to that place instead of
> PREFIX/lib/libexec.

Ok, that's another approach that makes sense. It is probably getting that
now but insisting on putting it in a subdir. Will look into it.

> Could, you send an updated patch?
>
> TIA!

Vacation is here and next week is hack week in the country-side. If I'm
successful, maybe I can even snare one or two more people to add packages!
There will be at least one old LISP geek there and I'm already working on
him. :-)