Problems with Gnucash development environment on Ubuntu 10.04

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Using Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit.  Attempting to compile GnuCash 2.3.12.

Configure fails out with the following:

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eirikr at Wolkenheim:~/gc/gnucash-2.3.12$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update
checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge
checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.10.1
checking for XML::Parser... ok
Using config source xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults for schema
installation
Using $(sysconfdir)/gconf/schemas as install directory for schema files
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for ngettext in libc... yes
checking for dgettext in libc... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed...  ca cs da de el en_GB es_NI es eu
fa fi fr he hu it ja ko lt lv_LV nb ne nl pl pt_BR pt ro ru rw sk sv ta tr
uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ar... ar
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared
libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for shl_load... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... no
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking limits.h usability... yes
checking limits.h presence... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking sys/times.h usability... yes
checking sys/times.h presence... yes
checking for sys/times.h... yes
checking sys/wait.h usability... yes
checking sys/wait.h presence... yes
checking for sys/wait.h... yes
checking for stpcpy... yes
checking for memcpy... yes
checking for timegm... yes
checking for towupper... yes
checking for setenv... yes
checking for the tm_gmtoff member of struct tm... yes
checking if scanf supports %lld conversions... yes
checking for ./src/swig-runtime.h... yes
checking for ./src/gnome-utils/gnc-svninfo.h... yes
checking for /proc/self/maps... yes
checking whether everything is installed to the same prefix... yes
checking whether binary relocation support should be enabled... yes
checking for pthread_getspecific in -lpthread... yes
checking whether binary relocation should use threads... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.12.0... yes (version 2.24.1)
checking for untested GLIB versions (glib >= 2.13.0)... yes
checking dirent.h usability... yes
checking dirent.h presence... yes
checking for dirent.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) yes
checking dl.h usability... no
checking dl.h presence... no
checking for dl.h... no
checking utmp.h usability... yes
checking utmp.h presence... yes
checking for utmp.h... yes
checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
checking mcheck.h usability... yes
checking mcheck.h presence... yes
checking for mcheck.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking wctype.h usability... yes
checking wctype.h presence... yes
checking for wctype.h... yes
checking for dlsym... no
checking for dlsym in -ldl... yes
checking for dlerror... yes
checking operating system... linux/other
checking X11/Xlib.h usability... yes
checking X11/Xlib.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Xlib.h... yes
checking glob.h usability... yes
checking glob.h presence... yes
checking for glob.h... yes
checking for chown... yes
checking for gethostname... yes
checking for getppid... yes
checking for getuid... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for gmtime_r... yes
checking for gethostid... yes
checking for link... yes
checking for qt_null in -lqthreads... no
checking for qt_null in -lqt... no
checking for main in -ltermcap... yes
checking for main in -lreadline... no
checking for guile-config... no
checking for build-guile... (cached) no
checking for sin in -lm... yes
checking for main in -lrx... no
checking for qt_null in -lqt... (cached) no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes
checking for t_accept in -lnsl... no
checking for socket in -lsocket... no
checking whether guile works... no
configure: WARNING: Can not find Guile on this system
checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
checking for guile - 1.6.7 <= 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 1.6.7 to build.

eirikr at Wolkenheim:~/gc/gnucash-2.3.12$
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I have guile-1.8 installed, but not 1.6.

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eirikr at Wolkenheim:~/gc/gnucash-2.3.12$ guile --version
Guile 1.8.7
Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation
Guile may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence;
certain other uses are permitted as well.  For details, see the file
`COPYING', which is included in the Guile distribution.
There is no warranty, to the extent permitted by law.
eirikr at Wolkenheim:~/gc/gnucash-2.3.12$ ls -l /usr/bin/guile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2010-05-20 21:04 /usr/bin/guile ->
/etc/alternatives/guile
eirikr at Wolkenheim:~/gc/gnucash-2.3.12$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/guile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-05-20 21:04 /etc/alternatives/guile ->
/usr/bin/guile-1.8
eirikr at Wolkenheim:~/gc/gnucash-2.3.12$
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This is pretty much a stock Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit installation.  I've barely
done anything in the system yet.  Reinstalling guile-1.8 does not fix the
problem.  Any ideas?

Cheers,

-- Erik Anderson