Re: configuring apps for guile

[Matt Wette]

On 2/16/20 9:57 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Matt Wette <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > What if you have a system that gives this (e.g., Ubuntu 18.04):
> >
> > mwette$ /usr/bin/guile -c "(display (assq-ref %guile-build-info
> > 'prefix)) (newline)"
> > /usr
> >
> > mwette$ /usr/bin/guile -c "(display (%site-ccache-dir)) (newline)"
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/2.2/site-ccache
> >
> > I'm not sure that guile will find .go files installed in
> > /usr/lib/guile/2.2/site-ccache.
> I guess you would run:
>
>    ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
>
> in that case.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Ludo’.
Yes, but some naive person (like me, for example) would never guess
that is what is required.  (I ran into this installing bytestructures, 
IIRC).
And the info is in pkgconfig/guile-2.2.pc, but still requires chasing down
that resource.   Still thinking about it ...

Thanks, Ludo.

Matt