bug#58420: packages with guile-3.0 as an input fail to cross-compile

bug#58420: packages with guile-3.0 as an input fail to cross-compile

[Mitchell F. Schmeisser]

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I cannot cross compile any packages which depend on guile. The configure phase either fails to find the autoconf macros or fails to find guile itself.


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configure: checking for guile 3.0
configure: found guile 3.0
checking for guile-3.0... no
checking for guile3.0... no
checking for guile-3... no
checking for guile3... no
checking for guile... no
configure: error: guile required but not found

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or

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configure.ac:70: error: possibly undefined macro: GUILE_PKG
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:71: error: possibly undefined macro: GUILE_PROGS

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I've tried compiling guile-config, guile-quickcheck, and guile-udev with --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf and --target=aarch64-linux-gnu and all fail in similar ways.


Guile itself cross-compiles fine and is listed as an input (not a native-input) on all of these packages.


Thanks,
Mitchell


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bug#58420: packages with guile-3.0 as an input fail to cross-compile

[Maxime Devos]

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merge 47221 58420
thanks

On 10-10-2022 19:25, Mitchell F. Schmeisser wrote:
> I cannot cross compile any packages which depend on guile. The configure 
> phase either fails to find the autoconf macros or fails to find guile 
> itself. [...]

The issue is that guile needs to be in native-inputs even though 
sometimes it isn't, as I noticed in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47221>.

A patch series is available there as well, though it needs to be rebased.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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bug#58420: packages with guile-3.0 as an input fail to cross-compile

[Mitchell F. Schmeisser]

Thank you for sharing this, I have a lot to learn about the autotools.


-----Original Message-----
From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 10:18 AM
To: Mitchell F. Schmeisser <mfs5173@arl.psu.edu>; 58420@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: bug#58420: packages with guile-3.0 as an input fail to cross-compile

merge 47221 58420
thanks

On 10-10-2022 19:25, Mitchell F. Schmeisser wrote:
> I cannot cross compile any packages which depend on guile. The 
> configure phase either fails to find the autoconf macros or fails to 
> find guile itself. [...]

The issue is that guile needs to be in native-inputs even though sometimes it isn't, as I noticed in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47221>.

A patch series is available there as well, though it needs to be rebased.

Greetings,
Maxime.