On Tuesday 01 January 2008 08:14:42 DJ Delorie wrote:
> > >(side note: gaf doesn't explicitly check for guile-devel, and asks for
> > >"gettext" not "gettext-devel")
> >
> >     How did you come to this conclusion?
>
> The first failure that reminded me to install guile was gcc
> complaining about a missing .h file.

That's extremely odd, as configure checks for the guile-config executable, and 
HAS to get the version number from 'guile-config info guileversion' in order 
to pass the Guile check.  Let's see where guile-config comes from:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum whatprovides /usr/bin/guile-config
guile-devel.i386 : Libraries and header files for the GUILE extensibility 
library.

Please check that you don't have a stale guile-config executable in your 
$PATH.

> The gettext thing, it said "please install gettext" but doing that on
> Fedora doesn't get you the -devel packages.

That's correct.  However, it is conventional to just say, "Please install 
gettext" and assume that since the user is compiling software they will be 
aware that the -devel, -dev or other similar package is also required.

> >     Depends on if we can get automake to bend to our will to
> > do this and work in all circumstances (make distcheck for example).
> > Patches welcome. :)
>
> If we could make-without-install or install-with-dependencies at least
> I wouldn't have to install a bazillion symbols EVERY TIME just to get
> to the compile errors.  Maybe we can put the symbol stuff after the
> compile stuff, in case the compile fails?

Yes, this is one of my bugbears. :) For some reason Fedora's 'install' is 
very, very slow.

> > Looks like I will be doing a 1.3.1 soon.
>
> "I'm sorry I didn't update my machines sooner"  ;-)

I'm actually developing on Fedora 7 (I haven't upgraded myself yet).  Probably 
ought to at some point, but last time I tried it broke my system due to 
hardware problems. *rolls eyes*

                                        Peter


-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd

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