Gnucash with Guile 2

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Fri May 20 04:02:49 EDT 2011


On vrijdag 20 mei 2011, Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On May 18, 2011 7:23:38 PM +0200 Geert Janssens
> 
> <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> > On vrijdag 6 mei 2011, John Ralls wrote:
> >> On May 6, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Daniel Kraft wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> > 
> >> > I'm not able to build Gnucash 2.4.5 with Guile 2 installed --
> >> > which is not too surprising, since the API and architecture of
> >> > Guile changed a lot since 1.8.  Is this expected, or is there some
> >> > way I can build Gnucash without having to install also an old
> >> > Guile somewhere?  Are there plans to switch to the new API (or in
> >> > general, support Guile 2)?
> >> 
> >> It's expected. We haven't done anything with Guile2. Heck, we just
> >> got rid of the Guile 1.6 dependencies in trunk. I'm afraid you're
> >> stuck with having to have both versions installed for awhile.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> > 
> > If you are adventurous though, you could try to build GnuCash from
> > trunk. I  have applied a number of patches by Andy Wingo [1] that
> > should make GnuCash  work with Guile 2. It would be a nice test to
> > see if that actually works.
> > 
> > Standard disclaimer: note that such an attempt is at your own risk.
> > Trunk is  not considered production quality and using it may cause
> > crashes and data  loss.
> > 
> > If you want to try it and have further questions, I suggest you
> > subscribe to  the gnucash-devel list and post your findings there.
> 
> Just out of curiosity I gave this a try today.  I got it to build ok,
> but it doesn't run since SWIG hasn't been updated to work with Guile2.
> There seems to be some progress on this, however [1] so there's hope.
> 
Ok, thanks for trying. At least we know where the bottleneck is now.

Geert


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