Guile problem building 2.6.3 from git on Ubuntu 12.04

[Colin Law]

On 12 May 2014 22:33, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Building from the tag 2.6.3 in git on Ubuntu 12.04 I have this error
>> during configure
>>
>> checking for guile-1.8 >= 1.8.5... yes
>> checking GUILE_CFLAGS... -pthread
>> checking GUILE_LIBS... -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -lguile -lgmp -lcrypt -lm -lltdl
>> ../configure: line 20528: syntax error near unexpected token
>> `gnc_have_guile_www,'
>> ../configure: line 20528: `
>> GUILE_MODULE_AVAILABLE(gnc_have_guile_www,(www main))'
>>
>> I have guile-1.8, guile-1.8-dev and swig installed.
>> Google suggested that this could be caused by
>> /usr/share/aclocal/guile.m4 not being found, but this file is present.
>
> The issue is that guile.m4 is no longer included in the guile-1.8-dev
> package, only in the guile-2.0-dev package.  So you need to:

I don't think that is correct:
$ apt-file search  /usr/share/aclocal/guile.m4
guile-1.6-dev: /usr/share/aclocal/guile.m4
guile-1.8-dev: /usr/share/aclocal/guile.m4
guile-2.0-dev: /usr/share/aclocal/guile.m4

That is on Ubuntu 12.04, on 14.04 it shows the same for 1.8 and 2.0

Colin