Hi- There's a bit of confusion on the guile-config deprecation.
NEWS says that guile-config "will be deprecated" meta/guile-config.in says it "has been deprecated" meta/guile.m4's GUILE_PROGS rule will error "guile-config required but not found" likewise those rules that depend on GUILE_PROGS, such as GUILE_FLAGS and GUILE_SITE_DIR In the manual, in the "parallel installations" section, it implies that GUILE_SITE_DIR is the way to get the sitedir from pkg-config, but with guile.m4, it is getting that information via guile-config, which itself gets it from pkg-config. In the README, it suggests "guile-config" is the way to get the sitedir for the installation of slib. The man page for pkg-config describes the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro, but doesn't give any indication of how to set up any autoconf flags beyond _CFLAGS and _LIBS. So it isn't clear that PKG_CHECK_MODULES could be used as a replacement for GUILE_SITE_DIR. It seems to me, that there is some inconsistency here. I'm worried that guile-config will just disappear with no equally powerful, documented replacement in place. The quickest fix would be to not deprecated it, while maybe creating and documenting a parallel set of pkg-config based macros in guile.m4 for extracting things like sitedir. Thanks, Mike
