On Tue, 27 May 2014 10:32:59 +0100 mark damerell <markdamer...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your most helpful replies. I did: > > 1: sudo ldconfig > > Output: > > /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/local/lib/libguile-2.0.so.22.7.2-gdb.scm is > not an > ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
Either forget about it, or remove libguile-2.0.so.22.7.2-gdb.scm and don't use the guile interface for gdb. It is a meaningless bleat from libconfig, which assumes too much about what is in library directories. [snip] > 1: if gcc really did not know to search in /usr/local/lib I would > have expected all manner of previous successful compiles to fail. > > File /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf (date April 2012) lists > /usr/local/lib . > No file in this directory mentions Guile. It looks like you just forgot to run ldconfig after installing guile. > 2: From the man page I expected to have to insert the output > of 2 into a Makefile. (Which Makefile? where? I dont know. ) > Also I dont think I sudo-ed 2. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/A-Sample-Guile-Main-Program.html#A-Sample-Guile-Main-Program > I intend to use both make check and make installcheck if I have > to re-install because they test different things. I feel confident > that the problem I reported in my OP is much more likely a bug in > make install than in make installcheck . I feel confident you are wrong. Chris
