Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options"

[David Kastrup]

Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Samstag, den 07.03.2020, 23:20 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup:

>> So assuming GUILE_CONFIG is set, that should be tried in preference
>> to a .pc file, giving a warning (an error would be a nuisance when
>> trying to have a common configuration for both 2.20 and 2.21, a
>> consideration that will not really be relevant any more for 2.22 and
>> 2.23).
>> 
>
> The following prints an error and directs the integrators into the
> right direction:
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 29e4e5680f..80a34f7b09 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -189,6 +189,11 @@ STEPMAKE_MSGFMT(REQUIRED)
>  STEPMAKE_TEXMF(REQUIRED)
>  STEPMAKE_TEXMF_DIRS(REQUIRED)

What about "an error would be a nuisance when trying to have a common
configuration for both 2.20 and 2.21" was unclear?

-- 
David Kastrup