Re: guile-2.0.11 build: libtool and readline problems

2014-04-21 Thread Ian Grant
The problem seems to be the presence of -L\(libdir\) on the libtool command lines. See makev-guile-2.0.11 for output of make V=1 But, I get the same problem when building glib-2.4, so it is unlikely that it's a guile problem, more likely something weird about my system (it's an old ubuntu distrib

Re: guile-2.0.11 build: libtool and readline problems

2014-04-21 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ian, Three questions: 1. What is the output of "pkg-config --libs libffi" on your system? 2. What is the output of "grep '^LIBFFI' libguile/Makefile"? 3. What is the output of "grep '^READLINE_LIBS' libguile/Makefile"? Thanks, Mark

Re: guile-2.0.11 build: libtool and readline problems

2014-04-21 Thread Ian Grant
And now I remember why I did this: it was because this web site, which is the official site for libffi, has a bad SSL certificate. (sec_error_untrusted_issuer) http://sourceware.org/libffi/ It's not good for guile to rely on third party source like this: I have the same reservations about the

Re: guile-2.0.11 build: libtool and readline problems

2014-04-21 Thread Ian Grant
For the record, the readline problem was because I had not ./configure'ed readline ---with-curses. I think that guile's autoconf test program makes this assumption. The assumption is probably reasonable if most distributions do this, but it is strictly speaking a bug in the autoconf detection of re

Re: guile-2.0.11 build: libtool and readline problems

2014-04-21 Thread Mark H Weaver
Ian Grant writes: > And now I remember why I did this: it was because this web site, which > is the official site for libffi, has a bad SSL certificate. > (sec_error_untrusted_issuer) > >http://sourceware.org/libffi/ Their certificate checks out on my systems. I suspect that your CA trust st