Re: Help with an Autotools/Guile project skeleton

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:02:22 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.guile.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello Nikolaos,

Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou <[email protected]> writes:

> I have the following project skeleton using Autotools and Guile:
> <https://github.com/createyourpersonalaccount/autotools-guile-example>.

That’s a nice idea!

> I would appreciate any insights on this. If I can get this issue
> fixed, and another issue with `make distcheck` (see
> <https://github.com/createyourpersonalaccount/autotools-guile-example#issues>)


Make distcheck looks to me like it actually installs myapp.scm, but
it does not use the prefix for the moddir:


/home/arne/.guix-profile/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory '/gnu/store/ylwk2vn18dkzkj0nxq2h4vjzhz17bm7c-guile-3.0.9/share/guile/site': Read-only file system
make[2]: *** [Makefile:784: install-modDATA] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/arne/eigenes/Programme/autotools-guile-example/autotools-guile-example-0.1/_build/sub'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1200: install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/arne/eigenes/Programme/autotools-guile-example/autotools-guile-example-0.1/_build/sub'
make: *** [Makefile:1108: distcheck] Error 1


This looks like your aclocal.m4 does not take the PREFIX into account.

When I just copy what I created in the conf project,¹ make distcheck
works:

moddir=$(datadir)/guile/site/$(GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION)
ccachedir=$(libdir)/guile/$(GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION)/site-ccache
# your version:
# moddir = $(GUILE_SITE)/$(PACKAGE_NAME)
# ccachedir = $(GUILE_SITE_CCACHE)/$(PACKAGE_NAME)

¹ https://hg.sr.ht/%7Earnebab/conf conf - Initialize modern autotools projects

This isn’t as clean as your version, but it should point you into the
direction of the needed changes to aclocal.m4

Best wishes,
Arne
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