Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then there are no working libtool releases that work for guile: > - libtool 1.4.x create no libltdl/ directory, > - libtool 1.5.x breaks 'aclocal', see > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2003-04/msg00222.html
I think this bug does not affect Guile. Does it? > OK. Then here's what I see when I use the instructions. (I have > autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.4, gettextize 0.14.1 and libtoolize > 1.4.3 in the PATH.) Does libtool 1.5.x work? We do not support libtool 1.4 any longer. > It is enough to leave a wizard clueless. Yeah. The autotools have grown into a problem of their own. Maybe there should be a wrapper around them that simplifies their use... Not! ;-) Thank you very much for the list below! > 1) It calls libtoolize without prior check that the libtoolize version is > >= 1.5. libtoolize 1.4.3 does not create an ltdl/ directory, therefore > it is unusable. (I would also add checks for minimum versions of > autoconf and automake, btw.) How would these checks look like? They would have to be very robust and simple. > 2) It doesn't copy libtool.m4 into guile-config/, but it should. Why? How? Guile should not try to work around this installation bug, I think. When aclocal from $PATH can not find the libtool.m4 that goes with the libtool from $PATH, then how can Guile do it? > 3) It would help to call "autoreconf --verbose". Yes, that is helpful. I made this change. > 4) The gettext .m4 macros are not present in guile-config/ and not > added by autoreconf. See 2) > > 5) Since AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used in configure.in, a config.rpath is needed. > autoreconf does not add it. 'autopoint' would add it, but is not invoked > from autoreconf. So we need to invoke autopoint? after autoreconf or before? I have added a call to autopoint after autoreconf. (On the other hand, I don't have a config.rpath in my Guile tree and I don't seem to need it.) > 6) "make" fails in the doc directory because version.texi doesn't exist. > Kevin Rude says that it should be fixed by > "configure --enable-maintainer-mode". But it would be better if autogen.sh > would solve this. Yes. Do you have a solution? -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
