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 Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 05:57, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> What OS/Distro are you using?
> Are you using your distro's slib package?
>
> Why not just use the distro's gnucash package?
> * All recent versions of Fedora have 2.2.9:  yum install gnucash
> * In CentOS you can get gnucash from EPEL
> * In Debian/Ubuntu there's a 2.2.9 on launchpad, or you can pull all
>  the build dependencies via:  apt-get build-dep gnucash
>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken Wolcott
>
> -derek
>


  I grabbed the Slib that was offered in the bug report.

  I then found how to get the RHEL version directly and installed it.

Ken