Wilfred Hughes writes:
> Hi folks
>
> I fancied exploring Guile with Emacs, so I've been trying to build Guile
> and Emacs as documented in https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacsBuild .
Excellent! Happy to hear of your interest.
> I've successfully built the wip-elisp branch of the main guile repo. The
> wiki page discusses http://git.hcoop.net/?p=bpt/guile.git and
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/log/?h=wip-elisp . I understand
> that the latter is a rebase of the hcoop commits on Guile 2.1.
>
> However, I've also noticed there's a wip-bpt-elisp branch in the main guile
> repo. This has the newest commits, but it seems to based on an older guile
> version.
>
> Which branch should I use?
wip-bpt-elisp has commits from years ago; wip-elisp is rebased on top of
relatively-recent master, with updated ChangeLog. This was based on the
recent work of robin's from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/log/?h=wip-elisp
So, you want wip-elisp in origin. That's the most up to date.
> I've also failed to compile the Emacs branch that uses Guile. I'm getting
> the error:
>
> gcc -c -Demacs -I. -I. -I../lib -I./../lib [many includes elided...]
> -I/usr/local/include/guile/2.2 -g3 -O2 vm-limit.c
> In file included from vm-limit.c:21:0:
> lisp.h:33:22: fatal error: libguile.h: No such file or directory
> #include
> ^
> compilation terminated.
>
> This rather looks like I've screwed up with autoconf somehow. I've set the
> environment variables suggested by the wiki page:
I don't have time to look into this part, maybe someone else can help
you out!
