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Consider an Autotools project that eventually wants to install some Guile
modules in the system. The canonical way to do this seems to add
GUILE_SITE_DIR to
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Autoconf-Macros.html in
configure.ac and to use the variables GUILE_SITE and GUILE_SITE_CCACHE in
Makefile.am to determine the install targets.

However, this doesn't honor --prefix settings; in particular, make
distcheck fails for non-root users; see here for a general discussion:
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths.html

So in order to make use of GUILE_SITE and GUILE_SITE_CCACHE, I think we
need Autoconf macros in guile.m4 that allow to specify the prefix (as in
the Python example on the cited page).

-- Marc

P.S.: There is one more issue with guile.m4: When it finds the program
guile-2.2, it only searches for guild-2.2, but not for guild. However, at
least on Ubuntu systems, there is only guild, but no guild-2.2.

P.P.S.: Of course, in the long run we need integration of Guile in Autoconf
like Python and Elisp are already integrated.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">Consider an Autotools pr=
oject that eventually wants to install some Guile modules in the system. Th=
e canonical way to do this seems to add GUILE_SITE_DIR to <a href=3D"https:=
//www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Autoconf-Macros.html">https:/=
/www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Autoconf-Macros.html</a> in <a=
 href=3D"http://configure.ac">configure.ac</a> and to use the variables GUI=
LE_SITE and GUILE_SITE_CCACHE in Makefile.am to determine the install targe=
ts.</div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><div>However, this doesn&#39;t honor --=
prefix settings; in particular, make distcheck fails for non-root users; se=
e here for a general discussion: <a href=3D"https://www.gnu.org/software/au=
tomake/manual/html_node/Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths.html">https://www.gnu.=
org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths.html</a=
></div><div><br></div><div>So in order to make use of GUILE_SITE and GUILE_=
SITE_CCACHE, I think we need Autoconf macros in guile.m4 that allow to spec=
ify the prefix (as in the Python example on the cited page).</div><div><br>=
</div><div>-- Marc</div><div><br></div><div>P.S.: There is one more issue w=
ith guile.m4: When it finds the program guile-2.2, it only searches for gui=
ld-2.2, but not for guild. However, at least on Ubuntu systems, there is on=
ly guild, but no guild-2.2.</div><div><br></div><div>P.P.S.: Of course, in =
the long run we need integration of Guile in Autoconf like Python and Elisp=
 are already integrated.<br></div></div></div>

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Hello Mark,

	disclaimer: I'm not a Guile maintainer, just giving you my personal
	opinion here

> Consider an Autotools project that eventually wants to install some Guile
> modules in the system. The canonical way to do this seems to add
> GUILE_SITE_DIR to ...

> However, this doesn't honor --prefix settings; in particular, make
> distcheck fails for non-root users; see here for a general discussion:

The guile.m4 macros are not meant to (and shouldn't) honor variables such as
--prefix, that is the responsibility of the (autotool based) project author=
. The
guile.m4 macros and variables that it defines provide (and meant to only pr=
ovide)
information about 'the Guile' that is 'visible' to your project (at configu=
re and
make time ...).

There are solution though, here is an example of what I do [1].

> P.S.: There is one more issue with guile.m4: When it finds the program
> guile-2.2, it only searches for guild-2.2, but not for guild. However, at
> least on Ubuntu systems, there is only guild, but no guild-2.2.

That is expected, because 'guild' could point to 'another Guile' ... either=
 it is an
Ubuntu problem, either guild was not properly post-fixed as requested, not =
sure, one
would have to check ...

HTH,
David

1]	http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/guile-lib.git/tree/

	[ see the configure.ac, Makefile.am and am/guile.mk ...
	[ I suggest you clone and try it (you'll need to run ./autogen.sh first)
	[ try with no option, then only using --prefix, then using both --prefix
	[ and --with-guile-site=3Dyes=20

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> ...
> There are solution though, here is an example of what I do [1].

Actually, I do this for all the projects maintain, and explain all this in =
detail on
the Guile-CV install page:

	https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-cv/install.html

	[ see "Install from ..." and following "Notes:" ...

David

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