1.6 reports "ERROR: required feature not supported"

[Derek Atkins]

Sorry, I don't know what to tell you.  I don't use Debian.  Perhaps
some Debian-user or someone more familiar with guile will speak up..

-derek

Rich Johnson <rjohnson@dogstar-interactive.com> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please be sure to CC all your responses back to the devel list.
> > Other people may be able to help you better than I....
> 
> Sorry, that must of been a slip of the mouse....I meant to do a "reply all".
> 
> >
> >
> > Do you, perhaps, have multiple versions of guile installed on your
> > machine?
> 
> Not as far as I can tell.
> 
> 
> > Do you have all the proper configurations set to find
> > your guile libraries and scheme files?
> 
> Guile, etc. were installed as debian packages along with their default
> configuration--if any.  Also, they were not resident until installed as a
> requirement of gnucash.
> 
> I looked through the gnucash documentation a bit. I didn't see anything about
> required configuriation of any of these required packages.    Things do run
> long enough to determine the printf requirement--I assume this is genereated
> from bootstrap.scm.
> Interestingly, I have two complete sets of .scm files.  One in
> (/usr/local/share,/usr/local/etc}  the other in {/usr/share,/etc}.  One is from
> the package install, the other is from a "make install" when I rebuilt gnucash.
> 
> So, this begs the question:
>    Just what is the set of proper configurations, and how do I verify it?
> 
> 
> > Did you try running gnucash
> > once as root (although I thought that would give you an slibcat error
> > message, not this one).
> 
> I get the same error running as root.
> 
> Thanks,
> --rich
> 
> >
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Rich Johnson <rjohnson@dogstar-interactive.com> writes:
> >
> > > Derek Atkins wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hmm, what version of g-wrap?
> > >
> > > that would be:
> > >   libgwrapguile1   1.1.11-5
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -derek
> > > >
> > > > Rich Johnson <rjohnson@dogstar-interactive.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi folks--
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm new to gnucash.  I'd like to try it out but I can't get past the
> > > > > following:
> > > > >
> > > > > ERROR:  In procedure scm-error in expression (scm-error (quote
> > > > > misc-error) #f ...);
> > > > > ERROR:  ;required feature not supported:  printf
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas?  Should I look elsewhere--such as libguile?
> > > > >
> > > > > For the record:
> > > > >   This is a new installation, not an upgrade.  Rebuilding gnucash from
> > > > > sources doesn't help--as opposed to downloading executables.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm using the following debian packages:
> > > > >   gnucash        1.6.6-1
> > > > >   libguile9       1:1.4-24
> > > > >   guile1.4-slib 1:1.4-24
> > > > >   slib               2d2-1
> > > > >
> > > > > And, I tried posting to gnucash-user, but I got no response.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > --rich
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> > > >        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
> > > >        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> >        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
> >        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
> >        warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available