Re: PATCH for guile-readline/Makefile.am

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> I think I was unclear: what I have in mind is to create a new
> directory "guile-core/guile-readline/ice-9" and put readline.scm
> there.  It shouldn't be put into guile-core/ice-9/.

OK.  I got this working in my tree last night, and I also updated
our guile-readline configure.in to use the non-deprecated AC_INIT,
automake, etc. syntax.

  AC_INIT(guile-readline, 1.7.0)
  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(readline.c)
  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign no-define])

Though that raises an issue that I haven't figured out how we want to
handle yet.  As above, autoconf now wants the package name and version
to be literals.  Hence our trick of using GUILE-VERSION and $PACKAGE
and $VERSION won't work in this new arrangement.

One possibility would be to make configure.in the canonical source for
versioning information and just write GUILE-VERSION from there, and I
guess guile-readlne would do the same for LIBGUILEREADLINE-VERSION.
Although this would mean that we'd have to update the version in
configure.in and guile-readline/configure.in independently, by-hand.

That doesn't seem like a showstopper to me, though.  I can just add it
to the release procedure.

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Rob Browning
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