Re: wrapping freexl in guile

[Jelle Licht]

Catonano <address@hidden> writes:

> I copied guile-gcrypt
>
> I changed all the occurrrences of "gcrypt" in "freexl" in all the relevant
> files
>
> I created an env with
>
> ~/projects/guile-freexl$ guix environment -l ./guix.scm --ad-hoc guile
> freexl
>
> I run configure and I got
>
> checking for libfreexl-config... no
> checking libfreexl's library directory...
> checking for libfreexl shared library name... libfreexl
> checking whether libfreexl can be dynamically loaded... no
> configure: error: GNU libfreexl does not appear to be usable; see
> `--with-libfreexl-prefix' and `README'.

I quickly tried:
`./configure --with-freexl-prefix=$GUIX_ENVIRONMENT'
and that seems to complete (a `make' invocation afterwards
understandably fails).

Maybe the following link might help you? It was actually about gcrypt ;-).
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-02/msg00062.html

>
> If I do the same in guile-gcrypt it builds successfully
>
> Why ?
>
> P.S. it's here https://gitlab.com/humanitiesNerd/guile-freexl
> P.P.S I tried with both "libfreexl" AND "freexl"

Thanks for working on this!