Re: GIT version: missing linking flag

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:

> In 'guile-config link', the flag '-lgc' is missing; it is needed when
> linking smobs. The function SCM_NEWSMOB calls
> GC_register_finalizer_no_order() in header gc.h

It shouldn’t be needed when libguile is a shared library, at least not
on ELF platforms where the shared library contains ‘NEEDED’ headers.

It is needed when libguile is static, but in that case you should use
‘pkg-config guile-2.0 --libs --static’ (‘guile-config’ is deprecated.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.