Re: Nyacc and guile-nearly-3.0 (progress report)

[Matt Wette]

Look at etc/README.  Maybe edit etc/configure.ac and rerun as in the README.

I'm building 2.9.5 now but running into errors (ubuntu 18.04):
/bin/bash: line 6: 14657 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) 
GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ../meta/build-env guild compile 
--target="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" -O1 -Oresolve-primitives -L 
"/home/mwette/proj/guile/guile-2.9.5/module" -L 
"/home/mwette/proj/guile/guile-2.9.5/guile-readline" -o 
"system/vm/linker.go" "../module/system/vm/linker.scm"


On 12/2/19 4:55 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 10:40:41AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > to anyone "in the know": is it worth to give nyacc a spin under
> > Guile nearly-3.0 (i.e. >= 2.9.5)?
> Well, I tried, this is a small progress report. First munged
> _guile_versions_to_search in nyacc's configure script to contain
> 2.9.5 (that's what my guile --version says). Configure bails
> out with:
>
>    configure: error: found development files for Guile 2.9.5, but 
> /usr/local/bin/guile has effective version 3.0
>
> (FWIW, there's an /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/guile-3.0.pc). Now
> setting _guile_versions_to_search in said script bails out with
>
>    checking for Guile version >= 3.0... configure: error: Guile 3.0 required, 
> but 2.9.5 found
>
> So it seems my Guile is schizophrenic: under some aspect it
> reports 3.0 ("effective" version), under some aspect it's
> 2.9.5 (--version version, to put some name on it).
>
> I haven't given up yet, though :-)
>
> Cheers & thanks
> -- tomás