Re: "configure cannot test when cross-compiling" should be ok

[Kevin Ryde]

"The Senator" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> I've read
> through the configure.in file (saw commented code for removing
> fileblocks.o using sed,

Yep, that's a bug in the guile configure I think.  Try uncommenting
it,

        LIBOBJS="`echo ${LIBOBJS} | sed 's/fileblocks\.o//g'`"

Or creating an empty fileblocks.c, guile shouldn't actually need
anything in it.

Incidentally, last time I tried cross-compiling to mingw (a while ago
now) it didn't work.  I think in the end it bombed because mingw
didn't have pthreads and guile wasn't yet setup for no-threads in the
1.8 branch.  :(

> As a general question as well (slightly off-topic), it seems the files
> in EXTRA_DOT_DOC_FILES are compatibility-ish wrappers (for windows
> perhaps). Are they reused from some other project or are they specific
> to guile only?

Most come from autoconf.