Hi Bary, > >> The whole autoreconf setup for added modules seems to get broken with > >> every development releases. Some packages seem to require multiple > >> reconfigs before they build.
> > I'm not aware of any of this, could you be more specific? > OK. Looking at guile-dbi My install script ended up including: AFAICT, guile-dbi is unmaintained. If you are serious about this, use guile-pg instead [1], or guile-sqlite3 [2] Or grab this project under your umbrella and start to maintain it, iirc, the original author was and still is looking for someone to pick it up and continue... > >> Tests break with errors like not being able to exec "/bin/sh" > > This is the symptom that you have a 'corrupted' environment, and the > > test suite can't > > find guile and/or guild > > This has been fixed, patched under revision: they will be pushed and > > guile-lib will > > be released by the end of this month. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2016-07/msg00055.html > Since you don't explain the symptoms of the bug, I don't know if it > what I am experiencing. To explain a symptom, you need to find out the cause :), and for that, I'd have to sit in from of your machine and dig into the problem... > When I try to "make check" guile-lib (from the git repository) I get: So, either you wait another 2 weeks or: git clone guile-lib grab the 11 patches I was talking about in the previous email apply them re run the autotool danse Cheers, David [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-pg/ [2] guile-sqlite3 was on gitorious, but it's only 1 file, you my find it here http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grip.git/tree/grip/db/sqlite3.scm There is also Guile-Squee, experimental: https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-squee/ It's been created by Christopher Allan Webber, I fully autotool chained it slightly later, but afaict, he still hasn't merge this in master: if you want to try it, clone it and immediately checkout the devel branch, then run the autool danse
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