Re: autoconf macros not working as expected

[Andy Wingo]

On Wed 22 Jun 2016 00:31, Josh Datko <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a C autotools project with guile extensions that I'm trying to
> cross-compile, however even when I think I'm disabling building the
> extensions (--without-guile), it appears that configure is trying to
> check for guile. Then configure fails, because, well there's no guile
> for my cross compile target.
>
> In my configure.ac I have the following snippets:
>
> AC_ARG_WITH([guile],
>         AS_HELP_STRING([--with-guile], [Build the guile extensions]))
> AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_GUILE], [test "x$with_guile" = "xyes"])
>
> <<snip>>
>
>
> AS_IF([test "x$with_guile" = "xyes"], [
> # Guile Extensions
> echo "Checking for guile extensions"
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GUILE], [guile-2.0])
> GUILE_PROGS
> GUILE_FLAGS
> GUILE_SITE_DIR
> ])

Just a long shot, but have you tried using just bash here?  I.e.

  if test "x$with_guile" = "xyes"; then
    echo "Checking for guile extensions"
    PKG_CHECK_MODULES...
    ...
  fi

I get lost with all these macros and macro expanders :)

Andy