compiling on gentoo

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Donald Allen wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 4:44 AM, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > I'm having some difficulty things running again on a 64bit gentoo
> > "stable" system after I upgraded guile to 1.8.2
> > after this I had to recompile guile with use flag  "deprecated regex"
> > but now I get this error trying to build gnucash 2.0.5
> > grep: /usr/lib64/libguile-ltdl.la: No such file or directory
> > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libguile-ltdl.la: No such file or
> > directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib64/libguile-ltdl.la' is not a valid
> > libtool archive
> >
> >
> > can someone point me in the direction of gnucash-nirvana?
>
> I ran into the same problem, but I'm sorry to say it was awhile ago
> and I don't remember exactly how I fixed it. But I'd suggest doing an
> emerge --sync, emerge --unmerge gnucash  and the same for guile, and
> then emerge gnucash (which should pull in guile). I have a vague
> recollection that the sync was crucial -- there may have been a
> version skew issue that they fixed that you won't see unless you sync.
> And, of course, before you do all this, add 'dev-scheme/guile
> deprecated regex' to /etc/portage/package.use.
>
> /Don
>
trying this while i'm at work



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