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guile-config deprecation?

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Message #23 received at 10488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
Cc: 10488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10488: guile-config deprecation?
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:41:28 +0100

Hi!

Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com> skribis:

> +# GUILE_PKG -- find Guile development files
> +#
> +# Usage: GUILE_PKG([VERSIONS])
> +#
> +# This macro runs the @code{pkg-config} tool to find development files
> +# for an available version of Guile.
> +#
> +# By default, this macro will search for the latest stable version of
> +# Guile (e.g. 2.0), falling back to the previous stable version
> +# (e.g. 1.8) if it is available.  If no guile-@var{VERSION}.pc file is
> +# found, an error is signalled.  The found version is stored in
> +# @var{GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION}.
> +#
> +# If @code{GUILE_PROGS} was already invoked, this macro ensures that the
> +# development files have the same effective version as the Guile
> +# program.
> +#
> +# @var{GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION} is marked for substitution, as by
> +# @code{AC_SUBST}.

Looks good.  My main grief would be that it makes guile.m4 depend on
pkg.m4, which we don’t distribute ourselves.  And so this may cause
“PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found” bug reports.

Hmm, WDYT?

Ludo’.

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