> I think the variables you mentioned are for building in your home > directory only. If you build system-wide, for instance under /usr/local > -- and your mail makes me think you do so -- you should not need them.
I wanted to build them in my home directory. I already have Guile installed and I didn't want to get things confused. > I have made some packaging recipes for Arch Linux, and there it works > without specifing these variables. > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guile-emacs-git/ (for emacs) > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guile4emacs-git/ (for guile) Oh, that's really useful, thanks. I'll have a look at those for reference (and I've documented them on the GuileEmacsBuild wiki build).
