> From: Thaddee Tyl <thaddee....@gmail.com> > Still, isn't it odd that it doesn't find libffi in the standard > installation path?
Well yes and no. The guile developers decided that they weren't going to search for libraries in ./configure. They were going to use pkgconfig instead. So they instead just look for the pkgconfig file for each library, and those files tell ./configure where the library is located. Each library that Guile depends on makes a pkgconfig file when you build it from source. The problem is that some distros forget to include the pkgconfig files, or only include them in separate devel packages. Depending on pkgconfig files is controversial. Some GNU developers find it convenient. Some think it is a terrible idea. -Mike
