Win32 build fails installing guile

[Ivars Grinbergs]

Hi,

I confirm - have got the same problem.

The first breakdown of install was due to slib3a3.zip vs slib3a4.zip file:

--------------------------------
--13:23:25--  http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib3a3.zip
           => `c:/soft/tmp/slib3a3.zip'
Resolving swiss.csail.mit.edu... 128.30.16.10
Connecting to swiss.csail.mit.edu[128.30.16.10]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
13:23:26 ERROR 404: Not Found.
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I fixed it up by changing custom.sh from:
SLIB_URL="http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib3a3.zip"
to
SLIB_URL="http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib3a4.zip"

Then I've got the same error Steve reported, even after I have pathed 
guile.init and RScheme.init as proposed by Thomas.

--------------------------------
ERROR: In procedure open-file:
ERROR: No such file or directory: "/usr/share/slib/require"

!!! guile not installed correctly !!!
!!! ABORTING !!!
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I have also tried to add the following line to c:\soft\msys\etc\fstab:

c:/soft/guile/share/guile/1.6/slib /usr/share/slib

which gave ability to do the following:

--------------------------------
me at myhostname ~
$ ls -l /usr/share/slib/require.scm
-rw-r--r--    1 me   Administ    10355 Oct 22 05:43 
/usr/share/slib/require.scm
--------------------------------

The result was the same: ERROR: No such file or directory: 
"/usr/share/slib/require"

Ivars


Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> writes:
>
>   
>> Oh, looks like they just released a new version of slib.  I wonder
>> if there's something about slib-3a4 that's different enough from slib-3a3
>> that causes it to fail for you?
>>     
>
> Slib 3a4 now includes in the guile.init file the /usr/lib/slib
> directory name, which it uses in preference to slib's own idea of
> where it belongs.  I know nothing about windows, but I do know that
> for the Debian package for slib 3a4 it was necessary to make the
> following changes to the upstream slib source, because we install slib
> into /usr/share/slib:
>
>   * guile.init (library-vicinity): Set default location of slib to
>     /usr/share/slib instead of /usr/lib/slib.
>   * RScheme.init (library-vicinity): Likewise.
>
> Thomas
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