Re: pre-inst-guile

[Rob Browning]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> currently check-guile wraps the built guile, setting env vars and such,
> so that it can invoke the test-suite/guile-test scheme script.  i would
> like to move the wrapping to pre-inst-guile so that we can use it
> elsewhere (like for doc/ref/autoconf-macros.texi building) in a
> consistent way.  i would examine all Makefile.am to adjust callers.
>
> any objections?
>
> any suggestions on a better name than "./pre-inst-guile"?

I haven't looked, but if the "wrapping" just involves environment
settings, then we might just create a script called guile-build-env
and call guile using that:

  ../wherever/guile-build-env libguile/guile ...

As a random aside:

I have a whole slew of -env commands so I can build/test gnucash and
other projects against various versions of guile i.e.:

  gnomeguile-env 1.4 guile arg1 arg2 ...
  guppi-env 1.4 guile ...
  guppi-env 1.5 cmd ...

etc.

Some of these scripts are parameterized on more than one arg, so that
I can, for example, try gnucash using guile 1.5, but g-wrap unstable.

And yes, you do get combinatorial explosion in your install tree :<,
but at least it's easy to clean things up piecemeal since I install
everything into it's own dir ~/opt/g-wrap-1.2-w-guile-1.3.4,
~/opt/guile-1.5, etc. and the -env scripts know about that...

ugly, but effective.

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