Installing SLIB

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Terry <fastsnip-family1 at yaoo.com>:

> dpkg -l guile\*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                   Version                Description
> +++-======================-======================-============================================================
> un  guile                  <none>                 (no description available)
> ii  guile-1.6              1.6.8-6ubuntu1         The GNU extension
> language and Scheme interpreter
> un  guile-1.6-doc          <none>                 (no description available)
> ii  guile-1.6-libs         1.6.8-6ubuntu1         Main Guile libraries
> ii  guile-1.6-slib         1.6.8-6ubuntu1         Guile SLIB support
> ii  guile-1.8              1.8.1+1-5              The GNU extension
> language and Scheme interpreter
> ii  guile-1.8-dev          1.8.1+1-5              Development files for
> Guile 1.8
> ii  guile-1.8-doc          1.8.1+1-5              Documentation for
> Guile 1.8
> ii  guile-1.8-doc-non-dfsg 1.8.1+1-2              Reference
> documentation for Guile 1.8 (non-DFSG items)
> ii  guile-1.8-libs         1.8.1+1-5              Main Guile libraries
> ii  guile-g-wrap           1.9.6-3.2              scripting interface
> generator for C - Guile runtime
> ii  guile-gnome0-glib      2.7.99-4               Guile bindings for GLib
> ii  guile-library          0.1.2-1                Library of useful
> Guile modules
>
> hmmm - noticed somethihng strange. slib supporrt is listed for guile
> 1.6, but not 1.8.

The problem here is that you have guile-1.6 but guile-dev-1.8..  You
have a hodge-podge of 1.6 and 1.8, and that is causing you problems.

> earched synaptic for slib and guile. slib is listed only for 1.6 not
> 1.8. So it would seem that slib for 1.6 only is available and installed,
> but not 1.8
>
> Could that be the problem?? Maybe configure is looking for the latest
> version only, 1.8, and since slib isn't available for 1.8, configure is
> unable to find slib ????? Does that make sense?? Version 1.8 available
> without slib support??

If version 1.8 doesn't have slib support then remove all your 1.8
guile packages, remove guile and slib, then reinstall guile-1.6
and slib together, and then rebuild gnucash.

> Terry

-derek

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