configure fails on fresh checkout

[Andreas Köhler]

Hi,

please install guile-1.6-dev. Then check the output of
`guile-config --version' :-)

-- andi5

Am Mittwoch, den 18.10.2006, 07:10 -0400 schrieb Jerry Quinn:
> Trying to build from svn as of last night (Oct 18):
> 
> 
> checking whether guile works... yes
> checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
> checking for guile - 1.6.0 <= version < 99.99.99... no:
> configure: WARNING: guile version check failed
> configure: error:
> 
>    guile does not appear to be installed correctly, or is not in the
>    correct version range.  Perhaps you have not installed the guile
>    development packages?  Gnucash requires at least version 1.6 to build.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This is Debian testing.  I have guile 1.6.8 installed.  It seems the version 
> test isn't correct.  guile --version produces the following output:
> 
> jlquinn at smaug:~/gnucash/trunk$ guile --version
> Guile 1.6.8
> Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free 
> Software Foundation
> Guile may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence;
> certain other uses are permitted as well.  For details, see the file
> `COPYING', which is included in the Guile distribution.
> There is no warranty, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> 
> However, the regexes used to extract the version number aren't compatible. 
> They look for "Guile version x.x.x", but what I have doesn't have the string 
> "version" present.  The following is one of the regexes that get into 
> configure, coming originally from macros/legacy_macros.m4:
> 
>    guile_major_version=`echo $guile_version | \
>          sed 's/.*Guile version \([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\).*/\1/'`
> 
> 
> 
> I assume that just removing "version" will break lots of people.  Can someone 
> who knows what's going on here enlighten me?  I'm brand new to the codebase 
> and guile as well.
> 
> Thanks
> Jerry