[Texmacs-dev] ERROR: In procedure make-struct-layout

[Andreas Seidl]

When building the Cygwin package I encounter the following error 
during configure:

checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking whether GNU C++ compiler is default... yes
checking version of gcc... 3.4.4
checking version of g++... 3.4.4
checking for Guile... ERROR: In procedure make-struct-layout:
ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting STRINGP): pw
configure: cannot find guile-config; is Guile installed?


Looking into the configure script, the following lines are responsible:


## The GUILE_FLAGS macro.
  ## First, let's just see if we can find Guile at all.
  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for Guile" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking for Guile... $ECHO_C" >&6
  guile-config link > /dev/null || {
    echo "configure: cannot find guile-config; is Guile installed?" 1>&2
    exit 1
  }


guile-config exhibits the following strage behavior:


# In my home directory
$ guile-config --version
guile-config - Guile version 1.6.7

$ cd /tmp/TeXmacs-1.0.5.10

$ guile-config --version
ERROR: In procedure make-struct-layout:
ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting STRINGP): pw


I'm really puzzled about this one. Any clues?


Best Regards

Andreas
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