Roger Mc Murtrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the libguile-ltdl is a separate thing.
Yes, libguile-ltdl was a tweaked version of libltdl that we used during the 1.6.x series, while waiting for upstream to make a fix that we needed. It isn't needed anymore. > On 11/01/2008, at 11:56 PM, Gregory Marton wrote: > >> This is an ongoing problem -- now on Debian guile build complains of >> not having libltdl even though 'sudo aptitude install libguile- >> ltdl-1' claimed it was correctly installed. How do I go about >> finding where this libtdl has been put, and telling configure? For building Guile 1.8.x on Debian, you need the libltdlN-dev package, where N is a number. I am using Debian etch, and have libltdl3-dev. >>>> Ludovic wrote: >>>> Then I guess MacOS X users had better install the "real" GNU >>>> Readline. Alternatively, we could detect whether >>>> `rl_pending_input' is available at configure-time, and `#ifdef' How do we test for a library variable (i.e. rl_pending_input) in configure.in ? >>>> Perhaps, detect if `rl_pending_input' is available at configure- >>>> time. >>>> If not, abort the configure with an appropriate message? >>>> Regards >>>> Roger That sounds good to me, if we can detect it. Regards, Neil