> On 18 Jul 2019, at 01:55, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to build Make 4.2.1 from the release tarball on an antique > system. I've tried configuring with without a guile option, > --without-guile and --disable-guile. In each case the tail of > configure results in: > > checking for working strcoll... yes > checking for working alloca.h... yes > checking for alloca... yes > checking whether closedir returns void... no > ./configure: line 9660: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found > ./configure: line 9672: syntax error near unexpected token `GUILE,' > ./configure: line 9672: ` PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0, > have_guile=yes,'make: *** [config.status] Error 2 > Failed to build Make
this error indicates that you need to install pkg-config. Then configure should succeed. HTH Dima > > Guile is one of those programs that is a constant source of trouble. > It often has difficulty building. If it does build, then other > packages can't seem to compile and link against it unless the version > numbers are an exact match. In fact, configure would probably fail if > Guile was present because I build Guile 2.2 from sources (I think this > is an Autotools problem). All in all, I prefer to avoid Guile > completely. > > Is it possible to disable Guile support? If so, then how? > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
