More on gnucash on Intel Mac

Chris Shoemaker c.shoemaker at cox.net
Sat Jun 17 15:47:15 EDT 2006


On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:19:26PM -0500, Jed Diem wrote:
> I downloaded the 1.9.7 sources and checked the dependencies;  most, if 
> not all, seemed to be satisfied with binary fink downloads.  For some it 
> was not all together clear.  I can provide details. 
> 
> 
> One which I was sure would be satisfied was one for guile 1.6 which is 
> installed (with development package) on the system.   But ./configure 
> aborts with the following message:
> 
> "checking for guile - 1.6.0 <= 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 to build."
> 
> Since guile (1.6) was in /sw/bin as guile-1.6, I renamed (moved) it to 
> guile.  Same error message from ./configure.
> 
> I tried running guile1.6-build in /sw/bin but that did not solve the 
> problem.  None of the variable values were exported.
> 
> Suggestions?

What output is given by:

guile-config --version

and

guile-config info

-chris


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