bug#32677: Installation of guile-debbugs fails

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Michael,

thanks for taking a look at guile-debbugs!

> Arun Isaac <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> address@hidden guile-debbugs]$ ./configure
>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
>>> checking for gawk... gawk
>>> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>> checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
>>> checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
>>> ./configure: line 2352: syntax error near unexpected token `2.2'
>>> ./configure: line 2352: `GUILE_PKG(2.2)'
>>
>> ./configure has failed. I think you are missing guile-2.2. Could you try
>> again with guile installed?
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> address@hidden ~]$ which guile
> /usr/bin/guile
> address@hidden ~]$ guile --version
> guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.14
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Furthermore, a syntax error seems to tell something different. If it is
> really true that guile 2.2 is missing, I would expect a respective error
> message.

Do you have pkg-config installed?  GUILE_PKG is a macro that depends on
macros provided by pkg-config.

--
Ricardo