Re: build requirements

[Russ McManus <russell.mcmanus@gs.com>]

Please send a bug report to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.  I've had some
gcc'isms removed in the past, I'm sure this one will be addressed
also.

Thanks,
-russ

> Are there plans to fix the Guile build environment so that it doesn't
> require both GNU make (for %.lo:%.c rules) and GNU CC (for -Wp,-MD
> options)?  I just spent the last half hour or hour trying to figure
> out why it wouldn't build on a system where I have to use the native
> cc.  (I didn't realize at first that the executed libtool command has
> the -Wp,-MD... option added even though it's not displayed in the
> "make" output.)  Maybe it's a libtool or automake thing, I dunno.
> 
> If I distribute an application using Guile as its extension language,
> I certainly don't want to require all these other tools to already be
> installed and working.  (Granted, I may want to use them myself, but I
> don't want to impose that on anyone else.)

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