Am Mittwoch, 27. April 2011 schrieb J. Alex Aycinena: > >> Replace guile configure check by PKG_CHECK_MODULE so that it also works > >> in cross-compiling. > > > > After this commit I couldn't build gnucash anymore on linux. It turns out > > that pkgcheck adds a library dependency (-lltdl) that was not there in > > the guile configure code before. > > > > It's not a big deal in itself, I quickly figured out I had to install > > libtool-ltdl-devel on my Fedora system to get it to build again. > > I too couldn't build on Fedora after this change until I saw this > comment by Geert and installed libtool-ltdl-devel. > > > I'm just bringing it up because I think it would be good to mention this > > in the build dependencies. I'm just not sure what is the most up to date > > piece of documentation we have for that. There's a README.dependencies > > in the src directory, but that looks horribly out of date. So is there > > another place we document build dependencies ? > > Shouldn't /.configure be changed to check for the presence of this > library? Unless I'm mistaken, it seems to check for most, if not all, > of the others?
We don't link in this library ourselves, so we shouldn't (need to) check for it as well. I would blame the libguile-devel packager, because due to this linker flag the libguile-devel package should have a dependency on libtool-ltdl-devel but obviously the package manager is missing this dependency even though your libguile.pc file implicitly has it. Maybe file a bug at Fedora? But yes, it's rather annoying. On ubuntu, indeed guile-1.8-dev depends on libltdl-dev. So that's why I didn't see any problems here. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
