Guile 1.8.2 / SLIB 3a4 upstream broken

[Derek Atkins]

Maybe you should try a real distribution?  Seriously, this isn't
a big deal, and it's been solved pretty much everywhere already.
See my response to your comment on the bug.  In short, no, we
can't remove guile/scheme because some of the major features of
gnucash depend on it:  e.g. reports.  Making that optional would
be ....  irresponsible.

Having said that, removing slib as a dependency would be a good thing.
I encourage you to take the ONE DAY to learn scheme syntax and to
submit patches to remove the slib dependencies.

-derek

"Bryce L Nordgren" <bnordgren at gmail.com> writes:

> Dear List,
>
> Thus far I have not had much luck getting GnuCash to compile on Puppylinux.
> Not really GnuCash's fault as I can't get Guile to work with Slib.  Now in
> spite of the fact that the bug referenced in the GnuCash ./configure script
> is marked "resolved",  upstream considers it open.  It is either a difficult
> problem or a problem of low priority as it has been open since last Oct.
>
> Solutions offered on this list range from "Downgrade Guile and SLIB" to
> "Fedora figured it out, just use yum".  I haven't seen a single mention of a
> known issue troubling the upstream.  The solutions are somewhat inaccessible
> to me as the SLIB ftp site appears to distribute only the current version,
> and Puppylinux doesn't use yum.
>
> So here's my question: who packages GnuCash/Guile/Slib for fedora, and why
> haven't they fed their fix back to the guile/slib codebase(s) like good
> open-source citizens?  Alternatively, could an avid Scheme programmer in
> this community, in a noble fit of enlightened self-interest, go clean up the
> upstream mess? :)
>
> My second question/request is: Is it possible to make Guile/Slib an
> "optional extension"?  Would dropping the "extensibility" feature affect
> core functionality like scheduled transactions, the "checkbook register"
> interface, and reconciliation?
>
> Bryce
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