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

[Bruce K. <bru...@gm...>]

On 10/10/13 13:50, Eric Bavier wrote:
> 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?

Because, cleverly, not all distributions distribute (install) guile-config.
A better question is why doesn't Guile provide a guile.m4 file that derives
all the information one might need?  They can supply it to gnulib, if they
don't want to provide it themselves.

Meanwhile, I will add --with-libguile-path that overrides the derived
LIBGUILE_PATH value.

Cheers - Bruce