Radically improve autogen.sh

[Neil Williams]

On Saturday 05 November 2005 10:55 pm, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 05 November 2005 10:19 pm, Neil Williams wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 November 2005 9:33 pm, David Hampton wrote:
> > > > Works for me on FC4.
> >
> > It's an automake version problem on Debian, not on OSX.
>
> OK, I've got it working on OSX but only with some hacks to the main source
> tree so I'll have to test before I can say if it is buildable on OSX.
>
> AFAICT so far, OSX seems far more picky about warnings and halts the new
> autogen over errors that it previously ignored. This may be a good thing -
> as long as it actually builds!!

I've now got a scheme error in src/engine - I can't run iso-currencies-to-c on 
OSX:

GUILE_LOAD_PATH=: srcdir=. ./iso-currencies-to-c
ERROR: no such module (srfi srfi-2)

I suspect this could be a conflict with the installed 1.8 tree that I cannot 
(yet) afford to uninstall as it's running my main personal accounts!

Looks like my gnucash development on OSX has met a deadend. 

I can't test the changes that allow it to build this far and I can't uninstall 
the 1.8 tree because G2 isn't ready yet. It's just too big a gap between 1.8 
and G2 - OSX just doesn't seem to able to work with both.
:-((

(If I didn't like guile/Scheme before, you can imagine how I feel now.)

G-wrap/Guile/Scheme don't work, the results are not portable and IMHO there 
should be *no* place for such things in src/engine - even to convert the 
currencies.

Why can't we simply can't put the C file in SVN and be done with it?

Is it really that impossible to update C for currency changes? It's not as if 
iso-4217-currencies.scm can be updated at runtime.

-- 

Neil Williams
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