Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > Hi Michael,
Hi Ricardo, >>> ./configure has failed. I think you are missing guile-2.2. Could you try >>> again with guile installed? >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> [albinus@BRONB4NHFYN1 ~]$ which guile >> /usr/bin/guile >> [albinus@BRONB4NHFYN1 ~]$ guile --version >> guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.14 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Meanwhile, I've changed to another machine running Ubuntu 18.04. It has installed guile 2.2: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- detlef:~/src/guile-debbugs> which guile /usr/bin/guile detlef:~/src/guile-debbugs> /usr/bin/guile --version guile (GNU Guile) 2.2.3 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> Furthermore, a syntax error seems to tell something different. If it is >> really true that guile 2.2 is missing, I would expect a respective error >> message. > > Do you have pkg-config installed? GUILE_PKG is a macro that depends on > macros provided by pkg-config. Yes, it is: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- detlef:~/src/guile-debbugs> which pkg-config /usr/bin/pkg-config detlef:~/src/guile-debbugs> /usr/bin/pkg-config --version 0.29.1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- And still the same error: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- detlef:~/src/guile-debbugs> ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes ./configure: line 2364: syntax error near unexpected token `2.2' ./configure: line 2364: `GUILE_PKG(2.2)' --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > Ricardo Best regards, Michael.