Re: missing .x files

[Marius Vollmer]

"Dale P. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:

> I just tried to compile cvs guile on a cobalt Qube 3 (intel, 2.2.x
> kernel, hacked over RedHat distro) from a "make dist" that I made on my
> Debian unstable (latest auto* tools) machine.

Works for me.  That is, I can build a distro that I made with "make
dist" on one box on the same box ("make distcheck" works, too).  Can
you build your distro on Debian unstable?

> automake is 1.4
> autoconf is 2.13
> libtool is 1.3.4
> 
> Is there a problem with these tools?

Are these the tools on the Qube or on Debian?  It shouldn't really
matter what autostuff you have on the Qube.  On Debian unstable, you
should have the latest and greatest, I think.

We need the versions listed in HACKING, there is no way around that,
unfortunately.

> I can't really change them.  Well,
> I *could*, but I don't want to.

You could make a sandbox for guile development.  Install the tools
with their own prefix and add them to your path only when working on
Guile.  (Or make a sophisticated wrapper that selects version based on
the current working directory.)