From: jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com (John Velman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Guile again, and "no accepatable ld.."
Date: 5 Jan 1998 21:27:09 GMT
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Some time ago (~July) there were a couple of postings here about Guile, 
but I couldn't find anything more recent in the mail archives.

Well, I have installed Guile 1.2 on my Linux machine, and have had a 
look at the documentation, and got interested. So I decided I'd 
see what problems I ran into trying to compile it under DJGPP on my 
windos machine.  (Yes, Guile is still in its early stages, but it 
has some interesting things that aren't in scm, like a linkable 
library so  you can use Scheme as an extension language for your 
applications. It looks like a good target for a DJGPP port.)

Well, I ran an autocnfg, and then tried runing 'configur.'
It checked off aclocal, autoconf, automake, autoheader, makeinfo, ..
the compiler works, and so on down to "checking for ranlib... ranlib."
OK so far.  Next thing it tells me is

"checking for ld used by the C compiler (gcc -g -O2)... no"

and on stderr:  "no acceptable ld is found in $PATH."

Anyone have any idea what is happening?  Of course, ld.exe is right
there in my DJGPP/bin file.


Of course, if anyone has produced a DJGPP version of Guile 1.2, I'd
like to hear about it.



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   John Velman
   velman AT alumni DOT caltech DOT edu