Hi Bruce, > Once you've got autogen installed
Oh, I need autogen installed first! Taking the latest tarball from ftp.gnu.org. Configuring it: checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes configure: checking for guile 2.2 configure: checking for guile 2.0 configure: checking for guile 1.8 configure: error: No Guile development packages were found. Glad that I have guile-2.0.2 installed. Using that... config.status: error: in `/media/develdata/devel/build/autogen-5.18.16': config.status: error: Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments for automatic dependency tracking. Try re-running configure with the '--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking). See `config.log' for more details Doing that. Then "make" fails, with output that ends like this: In file included from ag.c:23: expGuile.c: In function 'ag_scm_type_e': expGuile.c:72:9: warning: implicit declaration of function 'AG_SCM_IS_PROC' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 72 | if (AG_SCM_IS_PROC( typ)) return GH_TYPE_PROCEDURE; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ expGuile.c:75:9: warning: implicit declaration of function 'AG_SCM_PAIR_P'; did you mean 'AG_SCM_CHAR_P'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 75 | if (AG_SCM_PAIR_P( typ)) return GH_TYPE_PAIR; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ | AG_SCM_CHAR_P expGuile.c:77:9: warning: implicit declaration of function 'AG_SCM_LIST_P'; did you mean 'SCM_LIST_H'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 77 | if (AG_SCM_LIST_P( typ)) return GH_TYPE_LIST; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ | SCM_LIST_H expGuile.c: In function 'ag_scm_max': expGuile.c:168:19: warning: implicit declaration of function 'AG_SCM_TO_LONG' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 168 | val = AG_SCM_TO_LONG(car); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ make[3]: *** [Makefile:654: autogen-ag.o] Error 1 Abandoning this route. > bash -x config/bootstrap I see it fail in autotool-out.txt. autoopts/Makefile.am:128: error: GL_GENERATE_ALLOCA_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL autoopts/Makefile.am:140: error: GL_COND_OBJ_DUP2 does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL ... The complaints are about autoopts/Makefile.am, which contains pieces of Gnulib code, cribbed out of the Gnulib repository without handling dependencies and .m4 files. It does not even invoke gnulib-tool! The fix will be the following: 1. Forget about the internal details of Gnulib, as you knew them from 7 years ago. *The internal details have changed.* 2. Remove from autoopts/bootstrap.dir:add_files_to_mf() everything that is related to Gnulib. 3. Read the Gnulib documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/index.html in particular, sections 1.1, 2.5, 2.9, and chapter 3 upto section 3.8. Bruno