Can't find slib?

[Derek Atkins]

Donald,

On Sat, December 11, 2010 10:23 am, Donald Allen wrote:
> On a Slackware 13.1 (32-bit) system, I just checked out svn head, tried
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash-devel, and got:
>
> checking for SLIB support... configure: error:
>
> Cannot find SLIB.  Are you sure you have it installed?
> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347922
> and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483631
>
> slib is installed:
>
>  ls -l /var/adm/packages/slib*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5425 2010-12-04 17:30
> /var/adm/packages/slib-3b2-i486-2_SBo
>
> The second of the bugs mentioned in the error message contains a comment
> from Derek about a symlink from /usr/share/guile:
>
>  /usr/share/guile:
>   total used in directory 16 available 283823416
>   drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4096 2010-12-04 17:30 .
>   drwxr-xr-x 199 root root 4096 2010-12-04 17:30 ..
>   drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 2010-02-25 14:53 1.8
>   drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4096 2010-04-14 19:52 site
>   lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 2010-12-04 17:30 slib -> ../../lib/slib
>
> Furthermore,
>
>  ls -l /usr/share/slib
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2010-12-04 17:30 /usr/share/slib -> ../lib/slib
>
> Any ideas? Need more info? (Derek?)

Are you sure slib is not only installed but also configured properly?
In particular, you need to make sure the slib catalog is created properly.
 Normally your distribution would do this for you, but as you're running
Slackware all bets are off and I'm afraid you're on your own.  If you were
running Fedora or Ubuntu it would "just work".

Please read the slib documentation as well those bug reports which go into
detail for how to test slib by running the 'require commands.

HOPEFULLY we can remove the slib dependency from our scheme code, but that
project, last I checked, wasn't 100% complete.

Anyone looking for a project?  ;)

> /Don

-derek