gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6, cannot find guile, yet I have guile 1.8

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

I don't know enough about configure options to encourage gnucash to
look for guile 1.8

Looks like a bug in how guile version is checked/verified...

Don't know enough (forgot what I did know!) about autoconf and friends

CentOS 5.4

gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6, cannot find
guile, yet I have guile 1.8

....
checking whether guile works... no
configure: WARNING: Can not find Guile on this system
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.


 which guile
/usr/bin/guile
[kwolcott at localhost gnucash-2.2.9]$ guile --version
Guile 1.8.0

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott