Re: An error of building mcron from git

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hello,

The GUILE_PKG autoconf macro is provided by GNU Guile.

So you need to install Guile in order to the macro to be expanded.

Wensheng Xie <xiewensheng@hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi, mcron:
>
> I cloned mcron from
>
> git clone <membername>@git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/mcron.git
>
> The building process stopped with an error:
>
> ```
>
> wxie@debian:~/work/mcron$ ./bootstrap 
> + exec autoreconf -vfi
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force 
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
> configure.ac:34: installing 'build-aux/config.guess'
> configure.ac:34: installing 'build-aux/config.sub'
> configure.ac:29: installing 'build-aux/install-sh'
> configure.ac:29: installing 'build-aux/missing'
> Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL'
> Makefile.am:193: installing 'build-aux/mdate-sh'
> Makefile.am:193: installing 'build-aux/texinfo.tex'
> parallel-tests: installing 'build-aux/test-driver'
> autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
> wxie@debian:~/work/mcron$ ls
> aclocal.m4  autom4te.cache  build-aux  ChangeLog.old  configure.ac  doc      
> INSTALL   Makefile.am  NEWS    src    TODO
> AUTHORS     bootstrap       ChangeLog  configure      COPYING       HACKING  
> maint.mk  Makefile.in  README  tests
> wxie@debian:~/work/mcron$ ./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... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
> checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> ./configure: line 2491: syntax error near unexpected token `3.0'
> ./configure: line 2491: `GUILE_PKG(3.0 2.2 2.0)'
> wxie@debian:~/work/mcron$ echo $GUILE_PKG
>
> ```
>
> Where is the GUILE_PKG defined?
>
> There is only one occurrence for it: GUILE_PKG(3.0 2.2 2.0)
>
> best regards,
>
> wxie
>

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Mathieu Lirzin
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