Problems with Gnucash development environment on Ubuntu 10.04

[John Ralls]

On May 12, 2010, at 6:00 AM, Tao Wang wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I got exactly same problem when building GnuCash from trunk in Ubuntu
> 10.04. I confirmed /usr/share/guile/1.6/slib is a softlink to
> /usr/share/slib. But I cannot find slib for 1.8 in Ubuntu. And I think
> the build script is using 1.6 instead of 1.8, because I got following
> lines during running ./configure:

Slib is pure scheme, so there's no compiling involved. You can just create the link in /usr/share/guile/1.8 and run the following:
guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)"

That assumes, of course, that guile 1.8 is the first guile on the path... which is the one that gnucash would use as well.

Regards,
John Ralls