GNU bug report logs - #22342
Infinite loop when GUILE_FOR_BUILD == guile

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Peter TB Brett <peter <at> peter-b.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Peter TB Brett <peter <at> peter-b.co.uk>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: Infinite loop when GUILE_FOR_BUILD == guile
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:28:45 +0000

I ran across an interesting problem while cross-compiling Guile 2.0.11 
with MinGW.

"GEN guile-procedures.texi" sat in an infinite loop, due to meta/guile 
exec-ing itself in a tight loop.

This was because I had set GUILE_FOR_BUILD to "guile" in my configure 
invocation.  In the uninstalled_env environment, "guile" is 
"meta/guile", not my installed version of guile in my PATH.

It might be helpful for configure to insist that GUILE_FOR_BUILD is an 
absolute path in order to avoid this happening to other naive 
cross-compiling users!

                                  Peter
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