Re: GNU Guile 2.0.10 released

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:02:21 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mike Gran <address@hidden>
> Cc: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>,
>   "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> The Guile build uses the in-tree Guile executable in
> the GEN guile-procedure.texi step.  Backed when I hacked on Guile,
> failing at that step was pretty common if the executable is less
> than 100%.  But a version of Guile that isn't correct enough
> to pass that step may still be functional enough to run much
> of 'make check'.
> 
> Thus, I often found it useful hand edit the Makefile to strip out the
> document generation steps so that the build would continue as far as
> possible.

Well, I'm sure we all tried this route here and there.  Sure enough,
back last year, I tried that as well -- but to no avail.  Guile would
get stuck during the next step, when compiling the *.scm files.  See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2013-05/msg00006.html for
more details.

Thanks.