[SOLVED] Cannot build autogen on Slackware 14.1 64bit / multilib

andrew.46 · 07-17-2014, 07:44 PM

I am slowly working my way through the dependencies for gtkpod using the SBo scripts using Slackware 14.1 64bit multilib setup. Unsupported by SBo so I am posting here...

I cannot compile autogen with the following error message:

Code:

checking whether with-libguile-cflags was specified... no
checking whether with-libguile-libs was specified... no
checking whether libguile can be linked with... no
configure: error: Cannot find libguile.  libguile is required.  Perhaps you need to install guile-devel?

I have run the script after adding:

Code:

LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}" \

before ./configure with no resolution. Libguile is definitely installed:

Code:

root@ilium~# find /usr -iname libguile*
/usr/include/guile/2.0/libguile
/usr/include/guile/2.0/libguile.h
/usr/lib64/libguile-2.0.so
/usr/lib64/libguilereadline-v-18.la
/usr/lib64/libguile-2.0.so.22.7.0
/usr/lib64/libguile-2.0.so.22
/usr/lib64/libguilereadline-v-18.so.18
/usr/lib64/libguilereadline-v-18.so
/usr/lib64/libguile-2.0.la
/usr/lib64/libguilereadline-v-18.so.18.0.0
root@ilium~#

And config.log is not helpful but I attach it to this post in case wiser eyes than mine can see a clue.

Thanks to anyone who can show me where I am going wrong

55020 · 07-17-2014, 09:36 PM

Ok, looking at your config.log, it fails because it can't find guile's include file,

Code:

configure:15519: checking whether with-libguile-cflags was specified
configure:15526: result: no
configure:15537: checking whether with-libguile-libs was specified
configure:15544: result: no
configure:15594: checking whether libguile can be linked with
configure:15619: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -O2 -fPIC  -L/usr/lib64 conftest.c -ldl  -lguile >&5
conftest.c:145:22: fatal error: libguile.h: No such file or directory
 #include <libguile.h>
                      ^
compilation terminated.
configure:15619: $? = 1

However, as you showed, you do have the required file /usr/include/guile/2.0/libguile.h, but its location is not being set. This is what the config.log looks like when it works correctly:

Code:

configure:15465: checking whether with-libguile-cflags was specified
configure:15472: result: no
configure:15483: checking whether with-libguile-libs was specified
configure:15490: result: no
configure:15516: guile-config used for CFLAGS: -pthread -I/usr/include/guile/2.0  
configure:15523: guile-config used for LIBS: -lguile-2.0 -lgc  
configure:15540: checking whether libguile can be linked with
configure:15565: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -O2 -fPIC  -pthread -I/usr/include/guile/2.0    conftest.c -ldl  -lguile-2.0 -lgc   >&5
configure:15565: $? = 0
configure:15576: result: yes

The crucial information "-pthread -I/usr/include/guile/2.0" comes from /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/guile-2.0.pc. Do you have that file? If you do, what does the command 'guile-config compile' print? If you don't have that file, you need to reinstall guile.

andrew.46 · 07-18-2014, 02:15 AM

Thanks 55020! As you suggested my installation of libguile was broken, I have no idea why, and recompiling it solved the issues.

Thank you....