Re: getting started writing desktop applications

[David Pirotte]

Hi Bary,

> >> The whole autoreconf setup for added modules seems to get broken with
> >> every development releases.  Some packages seem to require multiple
> >> reconfigs before they build.   

> > I'm not aware of any of this, could you be more specific?  

> OK. Looking at guile-dbi  My install script ended up including:

AFAICT, guile-dbi is unmaintained. If you are serious about this, use guile-pg
instead [1], or guile-sqlite3 [2]

Or grab this project under your umbrella and start to maintain it, iirc, the 
original
author was and still is looking for someone to pick it up and continue...

> >> Tests break with errors like not being able to exec "/bin/sh"  

> > This is the symptom that you have a 'corrupted' environment, and the
> > test suite can't
> > find guile and/or guild  

> > This has been fixed, patched under revision: they will be pushed and
> > guile-lib will
> > be released by the end of this month.

> >     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2016-07/msg00055.html  

> Since you don't explain the symptoms of the bug, I don't know if it
> what I am experiencing.

To explain a symptom, you need to find out the cause :), and for that, I'd have 
to
sit in from of your machine and dig into the problem... 

> When I try to "make check" guile-lib (from the git repository) I get:

So, either you wait another 2 weeks or:

        git clone guile-lib
        grab the 11 patches I was talking about in the previous email
        apply them
        re run the autotool danse

Cheers,
David

[1]     https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-pg/

[2]     guile-sqlite3 was on gitorious, but it's only 1 file, you my find it 
here
        http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grip.git/tree/grip/db/sqlite3.scm

There is also Guile-Squee, experimental:

        https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-squee/

It's been created by Christopher Allan Webber, I fully autotool chained it
slightly later, but afaict, he still hasn't merge this in master: if you want 
to try
it, clone it and immediately checkout the devel branch, then run the autool 
danse

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