> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:02:21 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> > Cc: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>, > "guile-user@gnu.org" <guile-user@gnu.org> > > The Guile build uses the in-tree Guile executable in > the GEN guile-procedure.texi step. Backed when I hacked on Guile, > failing at that step was pretty common if the executable is less > than 100%. But a version of Guile that isn't correct enough > to pass that step may still be functional enough to run much > of 'make check'. > > Thus, I often found it useful hand edit the Makefile to strip out the > document generation steps so that the build would continue as far as > possible.
Well, I'm sure we all tried this route here and there. Sure enough, back last year, I tried that as well -- but to no avail. Guile would get stuck during the next step, when compiling the *.scm files. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2013-05/msg00006.html for more details. Thanks.
