Re: How should I check for Guile in configure.in?

[Juho Östman]

At 22:09 16.5.2001 +0200, Martin Grabmueller wrote:

[configure.in script]
> GUILE_FLAGS
> if test "`guile -c '(display (string>=? (version) "1.4.1"))'`" != "#t"; then
>   AC_MSG_ERROR([Your Guile is too old.  You need CVS Guile January 2001 
> or later.])
> fi
At least Debian has kept the Guile library and the interpreter binary in 
separate packages, so that it isn't required to have the interpreter 
installed if just the library is used. Is there any other way (configure 
time) to check the version number?