Re: patch for a installation bug in guile

[Neil Jerram]

"Shaojun Zhao" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> I download http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.3.tar.gz, but
> the ./configure gave me this:
> ...
> checking for lt_dlinit in -lltdl... no
> configure: error: libltdl not found.  See README.
>
> I worked on this for 2 days and found a solution:
> BTW: yum install guile-devel works just fine on my fedora core 8, but
> compile from source failed as above.
>
> The solution is to install libltdl-dev (not libltdl as in the readme!!!)

Well, README actually says "libltdl is used for loading extensions at
run-time.  It is available from http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/";
- and I am pretty sure that if you downloaded and built a tarball from
there, you would naturally have installed the "-dev" parts of libltdl
as well as the runtime parts.

So this issue is actually about how parts of upstream tarballs map to
the naming in particular distributions.  Unfortunately I don't think
it's feasible for Guile's README to try to mention what the right
package name might be in all the OSs/distributions where someone might
build Guile.

On the other hand, if the RPM spec for Guile is self-contained, I'd
have no objection to including it in our upstream CVS (and hence
future distributions) - and then I presume it would be clear from that
the necessary package on Fedora is libltdl-dev.

> Cheers,
> -Shaojun Zhao
> University of Rochester

Regards,
        Neil