problem with overrides script in 1.8.4 from fink

[Derek Atkins]

This is strange, because guile16 should install a "guile-1.6"
binary (or at least an appropriate symlink).

The overrides issue pointing to guile-1.6 is a fink-specific
patch so you should contact the fink maintainer..

-derek

Kaaren Shalom & Richard Gilligan <cosmodog at attbi.com> writes:

> A few days ago I upgraded my gnucash to 1.8.4 via fink.
> 
> The next time I tried to launch gnucash I got this console message:
> 
> /sw/lib/gnucash/overrides/guile: exec: guile-1.6: not found
> 
> I have since edited /sw/lib/gnucash/overrides/guile to include a full
> path to guile-1.6 and my gnucash now launches.
> I did not have to do this with earlier versions, and my "solution"
> doesn't feel particularly correct.
> 
> Anyone else have this problem?  Or care to suggest a better solution?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Richard
> 
> P.S.
> 
> I seem to have two guiles installed 1.4 and 1.6. I thought that might
> be the problem so I tried to remove 1.4 but dpkg would not do it, at
> which point I came to the edge of my understanding and turned back.
> 
> [newthang:~] admin% fink list guile
> Information about 2535 packages read in 11 seconds.
> 
>   i   guile            1.4-7        Embedable Scheme interpreter
>       guile-dev        1.4-7        Embedable Scheme interpreter
>   i   guile-shlibs     1.4-7        Embedable Scheme interpreter
>   i   guile16          1.6.4-1      Embedable Scheme interpreter
>   i   guile16-dev      1.6.4-1      Development package for guile16
>   i   guile16-libs     1.6.4-1      Scheme libraries and modules for
> guile16
>   i   guile16-shlibs   1.6.4-1      Shared libraries for guile16
> [newthang:~] admin%
> 
> 
> 
> [newthang:~] admin% fink remove guile
> sudo /sw/bin/fink  remove guile
> Password:
> Information about 2535 packages read in 2 seconds.
> 
> dpkg --remove guile
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of guile:
>   gconf-shlibs depends on guile.
>   guppi16-shlibs depends on guile.
> dpkg: error processing guile (--remove):
>   dependency problems - not removing
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   guile
> ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
> Failed: can't remove package guile
> [newthang:~] admin%
> 
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