Re: Odd Guile compilation problems

[Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>]

Hello, Daniel!

>   Second: for some reason, the Hurd build produces a shared library
> named 'libguile.so.4.0'.  I believe that this is out of whack with the
> expected result of 'libguile.so.4.0.0' -- at any rate, debian/rules
> assumes at one point that this file exists and that 'libguile.so.4'
> (also missing) exists. Is this a problem in autoconf, automake, or
> libtool?  I notice that libglib (which is also built with these
> programs) correctly produces the file libglib-1.2.so.0.0.3 when built
> in the Hurd, so I'm hesitant to implicate them. But there's a lot I
> could learn about build processes of shared libraries. (which begs the
> question, why am I trying to build them in a hostile environment..)

I believe, this is a problem (or a feature) of libtool.

Libtool uses different versioning schemes for different OS'es. However, I
don't know any reason for this to be different for GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd.

Pavel Roskin