Re: build dependencies

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 23 February 2004 09.11, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Erik Sandberg writes:
> >> > 2.
> >> > ./autogen does not report when guile 1.6 header files are missing.
> >>
> >> huh? Are you sure?
> >>
> >> autogen runs configure, so it will complain as much as configure.
> >
> > Yes, but configure doesn't complain. It seems that it doesn't search for
> > its header files. After removing debian's guile-1.6-dev package,
> > configure runs fine (see below)
>
> Then that's a guile packaging bug.  configure checks for the
> guile-config development script, which should be packaged together
> with the headers.  We could add a test to configure for libguile.h or
> so to catch this.

This is true. The packager knows about the bug, so no extra check should be 
needed.

Erik