Re: guile-config and other packages compiling against guile

2005-09-08 Thread Greg Troxel
With guile I had been thinking that it might be useful, for example, to be able to find out the guile version, or the location to install .scm files, even if you don't care about compiling anything. However, the more I think about this and look at the output of at least the current "guil

Re: guile-config and other packages compiling against guile

2005-09-07 Thread Rob Browning
Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > test -f $(guile-config info pkgincludedir)/gh.h > > I see your point, but this feels kludgy and not how other programs > behave, or at least not how I think they behave. Sure. I just meant this as an example. I think it'd be more reasonable to have so

Re: guile-config and other packages compiling against guile

2005-09-07 Thread Greg Troxel
I am used to pkgsrc (NetBSD) pkg management, which generally doesn't have a split between "run this" and "link with this files", so I may be missing some experience. I believe that if "guile-config [link|compile]" runs, then the libs should be there. A simple solution is to ask packagers to put g