Re: Build Error in Latest Git

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Noah Lavine <address@hidden> writes:

> After looking at this a bit more, I think it's an issue with Gnulib,
> or possibly the configuration system. I'd like to report it to one of
> those projects, but could someone tell me how Guile's configuration
> mechanism interacts with Gnulib's? I don't really understand what is
> configuring Gnulib, since it has no configure script.

Gnulib is a library of source files, including C files, Autoconf macros,
etc.

Guile uses Gnulib’s ‘libunistring’ module, which in turn depends on the
‘iconv’ module (see m4/gnulib-cache.m4 in the Guile tree).  The latter
is the one that provides the ‘--with-libiconv-prefix’ configure option
and the $(LTLIBICONV) variable used in libguile/Makefile.am.  On non-GNU
systems, that variable should be non-empty.

Hopefully this is enough info to ping address@hidden  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.