On Jul 4, 2015 5:14 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > "Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <g...@clacke.user.lysator.liu.se> skribis:
> >> > I'm working on s6, and it > >> > expects -lexecline to work. Currently I'm feeding its configure > >> > "--with-lib=.../lib/execline", would be nice to get that done in > >> > execline instead. Modifying LIBRARY_PATH has no effect, what do I need > >> > to do to override gcc? > >> > >> LIBRARY_PATH is automatically set to contains all the lib/ > >> sub-directories, so nothing special is needed. The problem probably > >> lies elsewhere, maybe in the build system of s6. > > > > If I do 'guix environment s6' with s6 having execline as an input, only > > .../...execline.../lib is in LIBRARY_PATH, .../lib/execline isn't. > > I see. Then I think passing --with-lib to s6’s configure script is the > right thing. > > Alternately, if you think other packages will need this in the future, > you could pass execline’s configure something like --libdir=PREFIX/lib > to have the library installed to that place instead of > PREFIX/lib/libexec. Ok, that's another approach that makes sense. It is probably getting that now but insisting on putting it in a subdir. Will look into it. > Could, you send an updated patch? > > TIA! Vacation is here and next week is hack week in the country-side. If I'm successful, maybe I can even snare one or two more people to add packages! There will be at least one old LISP geek there and I'm already working on him. :-)
