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[Derek Atkins]

Simon Ruggier <simon80 at gmail.com> writes:

> Perhaps it's misleading to say that one can't build GnuCash against
> Debian's guile-1.8 packages, since the missing guile-1.8-slib package
> would only create two files, which can be manually installed by doing
> the following as root:
> ln -s ../../slib/ /usr/share/guile/1.8/
> guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)"
>
> After doing the above, I can build successfully using Debian's
> guile-1.8-dev package. I don't know anything about Guile, so I can't
> comment on how this issue could or should be handled on other
> platforms.

However, losing guile-1.6 support without discussion is a BAD THING.

-derek
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