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

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> writes:

> ....
> 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

As the error message says, "Perhaps you have not installed the guile
development packages?"   Do you have guile-devel installed?

> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott

-derek

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