Bug 696088 – sys-devel/autogen-5.18.16-r1 does not specify guile dependency correctly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Carlos Konstanski 2019-10-02 23:00:50 UTC]

sys-devel/autogen-5.18.16-r1 depends on dev-scheme/guile. Specifically it depends on a certain subset of guile versions:

configure: checking for guile 2.2
configure: checking for guile 2.0
configure: checking for guile 1.8

But the ebuild simply specifies >=dev-scheme/guile-2.0. This is problematic because the latest guile is 2.9.4 which does not satisfy the build.

The ebuild needs to be corrected to pull in a guile version that actually works.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2019-10-02 23:28:22 UTC]

I think the correct fix is to port autogen to most recent guile if not already done upstream already. Should not be much work. 

Most recent guile is 2.2.4 in ::gentoo:
    https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-scheme/guile

Makes it a bit hard to test.

[Comment 2 Carlos Konstanski 2019-10-02 23:44:44 UTC]

If you want to reproduce, add the lisp overlay.

[Comment 3 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2019-10-03 19:26:06 UTC]

If there are plans to get ::gentoo to support guile-3 I suggest adding at least masked version into the tree.

[Comment 4 Cyprien Nicolas (fulax) 2019-10-25 13:56:01 UTC]

(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #3)
> If there are plans to get ::gentoo to support guile-3 I suggest adding at
> least masked version into the tree.

This my fault. I added guile-2.9.x in the lisp overlay for early testing, but I forgot to update the overlay's p.mask after bumping from 2.9.3 to 2.9.4 a couple of months ago.

I just pushed an update to p.mask in the lisp overlay to fix this issue.

Sorry for that.

[Comment 5 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2019-12-28 13:43:53 UTC]

Ok, I'm assuming there are no short-term plans to get guile-3 into main tree. Closing as INVALID.