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

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

Bruce Korb <bru...@gm...> writes:

> On 10/10/13 13:50, Eric Bavier wrote:
>> Why not use LIBGUILE_PATH=`guile-config info libdir` instead?
>
> Because, cleverly, not all distributions distribute (install)
> guile-config.

I suggested the guile-config option because I saw that guile-config was
already being used in one of the configure paths.

> 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.

I can forward the question to the guile developers.

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

That should work, as long as you make the intent of the option clear
enough.


Also, I was wondering, since the problem is essentially that the the
current method picks the wrong path from "-L${path1} -L${path2}",
couldn't the configure macro do a loop over all paths and look for the
one that has a bin directory containing the executables needed by
autogen?

> Cheers - Bruce

-- 
Eric Bavier, Scientific Libraries, Cray Inc.