Re: [PATCH] Don't try building gdb against guile-2.2

[Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>]

On 2017-10-08 13:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> > Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> > Date: Sun,  8 Oct 2017 12:47:03 -0400
> >
> > GDB currently doesn't build with Guile 2.2 (see PR 21104).  If one has
> > both Guile 2.2 and 2.0 installed, GDB will pick up Guile 2.2 first and
> > fail building.  Until somebody does the work of adapting the GDB code 
> > to
> > Guile 2.2, we should not try using it.  This patch therefore removes 
> > it
> > from configure.
> >
> > gdb/ChangeLog:
> >
> > 	* configure.ac (try_guile_versions): Remove guile-2.2.
> > 	* configure: Regenerate.
>
> Should we perhaps have a configure-time option, by default off, to use
> Guile 2.2?  Otherwise, how would that "somebody" work on fixing this
> problem, if they cannot even try building with Guile 2.2?
>
> Thanks.

They can pass --with-guile=guile-2.2.  try_guile_versions, AFAIU, 
contains the version to try by default if the version to use is not 
explicitly passed (--with-guile or --with-guile=yes).

Simon