Re: guile 1.8.5 compile segfault

[Neil Jerram]

2008/9/20 tantalum <address@hidden>:
>
> i meant the version one gets when issuing "git clone
> git://git.sv.gnu.org/guile.git".
> now trying this again, it wont complete "autoconf configure.in" (i found no
> further documentation how to compile except a comment in configure.in)
> it runs a second then gives:
>
> ;;
> configure.in:44: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>     If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>     See the Autoconf documentation.
[...]

Guile requires particular versions of the various autotools, which may
not be what you have...

Could you try the latest branch_release-1-8 snapshot at
http://www.ossau.uklinux.net/guile/snapshots ?  You'll be able to
build that with just the standard ./configure and make sequence.

Regards,
       Neil