GnuCash 1.8.1-4 and RedHat 9: Error in main.scm

[Derek Atkins]

Francis K Shim <belfrancis2001 at yahoo.ca> writes:

> Ah, I see... so the default should either have been handled before the
> actual gnucash binary was loaded? (ie: either LANG should have been
> set or a mandatory "setlocale" done before the scheme libraries were
> loaded?)

No.. That's already done by gnucash.  This is a guile-1.6 problem.  I
sent out another message with the associated patch (which has been in
CVS for a couple weeks).

The problem with guile (or any interpretted language) is that you
don't know you have problems with the code until you actually try to
execute that particular line of code.  It's not like C where you can
get compile-time warnings of syntax errors.  So it makes it very
difficult to find simple syntax errors like this one (well, it's a
syntax error in guile-1.6, not in earlier guiles).

> Frank

-derek

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