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I think that the guile-devel RPM should install the two .m4 macros (guile and qthreads) because people writing independently distributed guile modules will need aclocal/automake to find references to these macros in configure.in and insert the definitions into aclocal.m4. aclocal finds the definitions in PREFIX/share/aclocal or on its -I path. There shouldn't be a dependency on m4 though because people are not obliged to use aclocal/automake (perhaps they should be though.) Ian On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > [ cc'd to guile list so Guile people can confirm the packaging bugs > before someone reports them ] > > Red Hat Rawhide's guile-1.3-1 and guile-devel-1.3-1 RPM packages have the > following packaging bugs as far as I can tell from the Rawhide RPM > list at > > http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ > > (for those who may not know, the distinction between a regular and > -devel package is that you should need only the non -devel package to > run binaries linked against the package, but -devel should provide > everything else you need to compile programs from source that link > against the package) > > * guile-devel-1.3-1 does not include guile-config (neither does > guile-1.3) > > * guile-snarf is in guile-1.3-1 instead of in guile-devel-1.3-1 > > * guile-1.3-1 installs the Guile m4 macros (guile.m4, qthreads.m4), I > believe that neither package should install these but if one does it > should be guile-devel. > > * The guile-1.3-1 package depends on the umb-scheme package for no > apparent reason. > > * The guile-devel-1.3-1 package depends on the m4 package, which is > wrong since it includes no m4 macros (although guile-1.3 does, and > does not depend on m4). > > * The guile-devel-1.3-1 package does not depend on the guile package, > I believe this is wrong on general principle but will be even more > wrong when guile-config is added to it since that is a Guile script. > > > I will report these unless Todd wants to, since he discovered the > bugs. > > I think we will need to add a warning to the scwm install docs not to > use the guile-1.3 RPMs from rawhide for the time being. > > - Maciej Stachowiak > >