Package: guile-2.2-dev
Version: 2.2.4+1-1
Severity: normal
The `guile-2.2` package installs the `guile-2.2` binary. This in turn
will cause the `GUILE_PROGS` autoconf macro (as shipped in
`guile-2.2-dev`) to look for `guild-2.2`, not considering the
installed `guild` binary, thus causing `configure` scripts that use
`GUILE_PROGS` to fail like this:
configure: checking for guile 2.2
configure: found guile 2.2
checking for guile-2.2... /usr/bin/guile-2.2
checking for Guile version >= 2.2... 2.2.4
checking for guild-2.2... no
checking for guile-config-2.2... no
checking for guile-tools-2.2... no
configure: error: 'guild' binary not found; please check your guile-2.x
installation.
The above output was from an attempt at compiling `guix` [0]. It seems
that if a versioned `guile` binary (such as `guile-2.2`) is present,
so should versioned variants of `guild`, `guile-config`, and
`guile-tools`. The documentation of the `GUILE_PROGS` macro supports
this:
This macro looks for programs ‘guile’ and ‘guild’, setting
variables GUILE and GUILD to their paths, respectively. The macro
will attempt to find ‘guile’ with the suffix of ‘-X.Y’, followed by
looking for it with the suffix ‘X.Y’, and then fall back to looking
for ‘guile’ with no suffix. If ‘guile’ is still not found, signal
an error. The suffix, if any, that was required to find ‘guile’
will be used for ‘guild’ as well.
Installing the versioned variants might even be a step on the way to
allow co-installability of `guile-2.2-dev` and future versions of the
Guile development binary package.
[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Introduction
Kind Regards, Rotty
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Versions of packages guile-2.2-dev depends on:
ii guile-2.2 2.2.4+1-1
ii guile-2.2-libs 2.2.4+1-1
ii libc6-dev 2.28-8
ii libgc-dev 1:7.6.4-0.4
ii libgmp-dev 2:6.1.2+dfsg-4
ii libltdl-dev 2.4.6-9
ii libncurses-dev [libncurses5-dev] 6.1+20181013-2
ii libncurses5-dev 6.1+20181013-2
ii libreadline-dev [libreadline6-dev] 7.0-5
ii pkg-config 0.29-6
guile-2.2-dev recommends no packages.
guile-2.2-dev suggests no packages.
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