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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
	 binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Subject: Re: Commit: Sync top level configure and makefiles
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:17:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mstc28i6.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07b262c2-444f-49c6-a2b6-f2d4e40d4e2c@suse.de> (Tom de Vries's message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:49:53 +0100")

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> writes:

Tom> This broke the gdb build for me on f39.  I only have guile 3.0
Tom> installed, which is autodetected by the gdb build.

Sorry, I was under the impression that gdb's configure didn't look at
$GUILE.

Tom> But while double-checking guild in gdb/configure, it executes
Tom> /usr/bin/guild-3.0, which uses GUILE as set by the top-level makefile,
Tom> in other words, guile, which is not installed.

... I didn't realize this was going on.  It seems very weird to me that
a versioned script like this is happy to accept any old interpreter and
not just hard-code the corresponding one.

Tom> I'd like to know if this is a user error or not.

No, I will try to fix it somehow.  Maybe backing out my change is the
way to go.

Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2024-01-10 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-10 12:03 Nick Clifton
2024-01-10 15:49 ` Tom de Vries
2024-01-10 21:17   ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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