Guile Problems (during GnuCash install)

[Dave Peticolas]

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On 21 Aug 2001 21:11:29 -0400, Dwight Frye wrote:
>=20
> I am finally trying to get GnuCash 1.6.2 installed and am running
> into problems. (Like many others.) I have a stock-standard RedHat
> 7.0 system. Upon that system I have installed the latest Ximian
> Gnome release successfully. When I issue the command 'rpm -q guile'
> I get the response "guile-1.4-ximian.9".
>=20
> However, when I try to invoke 'guile' (which happens when you run
> './configure' in the Guppi source directory) I get the following
> error:
>=20
> --------------------
> guile: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libguile.so.9: symb=
ol __sysconf, version GLIBC_2.2 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link tim=
e reference
> --------------------
>=20
> Any clue? Clearly I have an incompatible library somehwere, but
> I am surprised at this given the fact that I have fresh install
> of Ximian installed on a fairly clean RH 7.0 system.

It seems Ximian built their guile package with glibc 2.2 instead of 2.1.
You can obtain an updated version of glibc using the redhat up2date=20
tool.

dave


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