[debbugs-tracker] bug#22342: closed (Infinite loop when GUILE_FOR_BUILD == guile)

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regarding Infinite loop when GUILE_FOR_BUILD == guile
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> Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:28:45 +0000
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> I ran across an interesting problem while cross-compiling Guile 2.0.11 
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> "GEN guile-procedures.texi" sat in an infinite loop, due to meta/guile 
> exec-ing itself in a tight loop.
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> This was because I had set GUILE_FOR_BUILD to "guile" in my configure 
> invocation.  In the uninstalled_env environment, "guile" is 
> "meta/guile", not my installed version of guile in my PATH.
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> It might be helpful for configure to insist that GUILE_FOR_BUILD is an 
> absolute path in order to avoid this happening to other naive 
> cross-compiling users!
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> Fixed in master; we capture the full path to GUILE_FOR_BUILD.  Cheers :)
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> Andy
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> On Sun 10 Jan 2016 21:28, Peter TB Brett <address@hidden> writes:
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> > I ran across an interesting problem while cross-compiling Guile 2.0.11
> > with MinGW.
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> > "GEN guile-procedures.texi" sat in an infinite loop, due to meta/guile
> > exec-ing itself in a tight loop.
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> > This was because I had set GUILE_FOR_BUILD to "guile" in my configure
> > invocation.  In the uninstalled_env environment, "guile" is
> > "meta/guile", not my installed version of guile in my PATH.
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> > It might be helpful for configure to insist that GUILE_FOR_BUILD is an
> > absolute path in order to avoid this happening to other naive
> > cross-compiling users!
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> >                                   Peter
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