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

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Derek;

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 09:47, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for your response.

1. I did not have guile-devel installed.
2. I do now.
3. Got further.  Ran into errors with SLIB.
4. Followed the advice in both the bugid's provided (installed Slib
and created a symlink); problem persists.

Current status: ./configure fails at SLIB.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott