Re: guile-www 1.1.1 & 2.16 problems under guile 1.8.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> if the configure script is NOT detecting missing `make-shared-substring',
> then that's a bug -- please post the output of the ./configure run (w/o
> the `--disable-shsub' option).

Nice that it can detect such things and adapt!

> this should likewise be handled automatically by configure (if not,
> that's a bug).  in the configure run output, there should be something
> like "acts like (ice-9 optargs-kw) ...yes", and the installation script
> module-install will read `need_optargs_kludge="no"'.

Right, this works.

However, the `s/make-shared-substring/substring/' occurs only at
module-installation time, which precludes one from running the examples
from within the source directory.  Also, while `id.cgi' DTRT (except for
`make-shared-substring') so that it can be run from within the source
directory, `you-are-here' just makes plain `use-modules' that are bound
to fail when invoked from within the source directory.

Maybe all the modules could be moved to a `www' subdir, and then
examples could be generated from `.in' files at configure-time that
start with something like:

  ${GUILE-guile} -L @top_srcdir@ ...

This way, `(use-modules (www ...))' would work fine.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Ludovic.