On Dec 18, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote:
> On 18-12-12 19:52, John Ralls wrote: >> On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> >> wrote: >>> Also make check passes for both guile 1.8 and guile 2.0. Word of caution >>> here though: if you install both guile and guile 2, for one of both the >>> guile executable is not "guile". In my case, I have guile (1.8) and guile2 >>> (2.0). Some tests are hardcoded to execute 'guile' and these tests will >>> segfault when run against guile2. If you manually fix the tests to execute >>> guile2, they pass fine. This is a transient issue that will resolve itself >>> once only guile2 is an option. >> Can we fix that to use a configure-set variable? >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> > As far as I understand, this is a distro-specific issue. Upstream the guile > binary is called guile for both 1.8 and 2.0. It's because distro's want to > install two releases next to each other that they rename one binary. Fedora > has chosen guile and guile2, but another distro might just as well choose > guile1 and guile or guile and guile-2 as binary names. > > GnuCash can't know this. It also not something that is defined in pkgconfig, > so I don't know how we can figure out what binary name we should use. But configure can figure it out by testing possibilities with AC_CHECK_PROGS, as a configure option using AC_ARG_WITH, or both. You could also check an environment variable, which would facilitate testing the same build with both versions. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
