building gnucash with guile-1.8

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 18, 2014, at 1:00 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 13 November 2014 20:38:29 Stuart McGraw wrote:
>> On 11/13/2014 05:53 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Nov 13, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>>> But when I try with gnucash-2.6.4. ./configure complains:
>>>> [...]
>>>> checking for guile-1.8 >= 1.8.5... yes
>>>> checking GUILE_CFLAGS... -pthread
>>>> checking GUILE_LIBS... -lguile
>>>> checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
>>>> checking for Guile version >= 2.0...
>>>> configure: error: Guile 2.0 required, but 1.8.8 found
>>> 
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> Where did you get GnuCash 2.6.4 from?
>> 
>> The download link on gnucash.org.
> 
> Hmm, so you started from the release tarball ?
> 
> @John:
> Did you generate the tarball against guile 2.0 ? That would mean the GUILE_PROGS macro in 
> configure.ac would have been expanded from the guile-2.0 sources and possibly causing 
> this issue.

Yes, I think I did. That would be a Guile bug if you're right, configuration macros should be version neutral.

> 
> Is there a way to recreate configure from configure.ac starting from the tarball ?

Yes, just run autoreconf -f.

Regards,
John Ralls