r20585 - gnucash/trunk - Replace guile configure check by PKG_CHECK_MODULE so that it also works in cross-compiling.

[J. Alex Aycinena]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:52:30 +0200
> Subject: Re: r20585 - gnucash/trunk - Replace guile configure check by PKG_CHECK_MODULE so that it also works in cross-compiling.
> On vrijdag 22 april 2011, Christian Stimming wrote:
>> Author: cstim
>> Date: 2011-04-22 15:43:39 -0400 (Fri, 22 Apr 2011)
>> New Revision: 20585
>> Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/20585
>>
>> Removed:
>>    gnucash/trunk/macros/gnome-guile-checks.m4
>> Modified:
>>    gnucash/trunk/Makefile.am
>>    gnucash/trunk/configure.ac
>> Log:
>> Replace guile configure check by PKG_CHECK_MODULE so that it also works in
>> cross-compiling.
>>
> After this commit I couldn't build gnucash anymore on linux. It turns out that
> pkgcheck adds a library dependency (-lltdl) that was not there in the guile
> configure code before.
>
> It's not a big deal in itself, I quickly figured out I had to install
> libtool-ltdl-devel on my Fedora system to get it to build again.
>

I too couldn't build on Fedora after this change until I saw this
comment by Geert and installed libtool-ltdl-devel.

> I'm just bringing it up because I think it would be good to mention this in
> the build dependencies. I'm just not sure what is the most up to date piece of
> documentation we have for that. There's a README.dependencies in the src
> directory, but that looks horribly out of date. So is there another place we
> document build dependencies ?
>

Shouldn't /.configure be changed to check for the presence of this
library? Unless I'm mistaken, it seems to check for most, if not all,
of the others?

> Other than that, I'm very happy with this change. It clearly simplifies and
> normalizes the configure code. Yay !
>
> Geert
>
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Alex