guile version check

[Derek Atkins]

Marcus Wolschon <Marcus at Wolschon.biz> writes:

> 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.
>
> fox at BlackFox:~/working_on/gnucash31/gnucash-2.3.1$ /usr/bin/guile -v
> Guile 1.8.5
>
>
> ---------------
>
>
> Why does it say that it requieres AT LEAST version 1.6 and then
> checks that the version must be  <=1.6 instead of  >=1.6 ?

It's not.  It's checking that 1.6.0 <= version < 99.99.99
This means:

   version >= 1.6.0 and version < 99.99.99

As for why it's not finding it; are you sure you have the guile
development package(s) installed?

> Marcus

-derek

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