configure fails on fresh checkout

Jerry Quinn jlquinn at optonline.net
Thu Oct 19 00:13:34 EDT 2006


Andreas Köhler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please install guile-1.6-dev. Then check the output of
> `guile-config --version' :-)

It turns out I did have the package installed, but for some reason 
guile-config and other binaries weren't actually present.  A reinstall fixed 
that.  Strange.

Anyway, I can configure now.  Thanks for the pointer.

Jerry

> 
> -- 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:



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