I would like to write a guile module to wrap Freexl and then use my module to import data from a bunch of .xls[x] files into a postgresql db
II would like my guile module to be packaged in Guix of course
The problem is that I can't make a proper package of a guile module containing also some C code 😕
I took a look at Paroneayea's guile-gcrypt and I don't understand very much of all that m4 macros kung fu
I think amz3 is having similarly a hard time in packaging his guile based wrap around the Wiredtiger C API
Just to give you an example, in this excerpt (from guile-gcrypt
configure.ac)
dnl Prepare a version of $datadir that does not contain references to
dnl shell variables. (Borrowed from Sly, which borrowed from Guix...)
guile_gcrypt_prefix="`eval echo $prefix | sed -e"s|NONE|/usr/local|g"`"
guile_gcrypt_datadir="`eval eval echo $datadir | sed -e "s|NONE|$guile_gcrypt_prefix|g"`"
AC_SUBST([guile_gcrypt_datadir])
What does "Prepare a version of $datadir that does not contain references to
shell variables." mean ?
I don't even understand the problem being stated here
And then I think we are substituting "/usr//local" withh NONE in the prefix
But why ?
Of course all the remaining
configure.ac is obscure to me and the same goes for Makefile.am and the contents of the "m4" folder
It would be useful to have a tutorial about how to do that
Or even some hints about what certain things mean, in there
Maybe using a different build system would be easier ?
Maybe WAF or Meson or any other ?
My (limited) experience is limited to Leiningen and Boot, on this
As for the read-o-fobia in the subect: please, don't suggest me to read the autotools manual. Please 😕