[Autogen-users] Many tests failing due to value of LIBGUILE_PATH

[Eric B. <ba...@cr...>]

I was working on packaging AutoGen for Guix (www.gnu.org/software/guix)
and came across a number of failing tests with `make check` (19 of 24 in
autoopts failed).  The failure in most cases happened on line 126 of
"autoopts/test/defs", which attempts to cd to ${LIBGUILE_PATH}/../bin.
The failure occurs because the directory does not exist.

It looks like ag_macros.m4 needs to have a better method of determining
the value of LIBGUILE_PATH.  The current method takes the path of the
last -L argument in LIBGUILE_LIBS.  For me, this path points to the
libdir for libgc, which is not installed at the same --prefix as
libguile itself, so we can't go to ${libgc-prefix}/lib/../bin because
libgc doesn't install a bin directory.

Why not use LIBGUILE_PATH=`guile-config info libdir` instead?

-- 
Eric Bavier, Scientific Libraries, Cray Inc.