Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> writes: >>> and all of those messages are auto-generated. >> >> So? This does not provide a documented way of getting Guile >> activated at all unless you are a 14th level system building >> magician. > > I'll try to update the documentation, too. > >> So the correct way is to continue _heeding_ GUILE_CONFIG when it is >> given. > > I suggest a deprecation warning like > > GUILE_CONFIG is no longer used. Please use XXX instead. > >> Is there anybody who recently built with a non-system version of >> Guile-1.8 intentionally? > > I do this all the time.
So how did you do it last week? >> So please, can we stop pretending that anyone building LilyPond is a >> perfect omniscient programmer? > > Usually, I try to insist on good documentation if people implement > stuff differently. This time it slipped my attention that Han-Wen's > changes w.r.t. pkg-config are not properly described. In this case, I don't think it is sufficient to add documentation somewhere (though necessary). People also need to get guided there instead of stealthily making previously working options do nothing. -- David Kastrup
