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/1y54p19lvz3rh6a5dyynnffn9dbal2li-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