configure gnucash 2.2.9

[Stephen R. Besch]

gillian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just upgraded my system from Centos 4.x to Centos 5.2. In doing 
> so, I am upgrading my version of gnucash. I have been using it for a 
> few years, and it is a wonderful app, thank you so much for your 
> continued efforts in it's maintenance! Applogies is this is mentioned 
> on the mailing list, but a search has not located any other similar 
> threads.
>
> I have installed guile 1.8.4 (rpm), have slib installed as part of the 
> umb-scheme rpm, but am having issues configuring gnucash with these 
> other apps.
>
> It doesn't seem to be able to find slib.  The error I get is:
> configure: WARNING: Can not find Guile on this system
> checking for guile... /usr/local/bin/guile
> checking for guile - 1.6.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.0
> checking for guile - 1.8.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.0
> checking for SLIB support... configure: error:
>
>    Cannot find SLIB.  Are you sure you have it installed?
>    See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347922
>    and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483631
>
> And yet a locate for slib shows :
>
> /usr/lib/umb-scheme/slib
>
> which I have linked to /usr/local/lib/slib
>
> any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Gillian
>
>
>
>
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Gillian,

slib and guile have proven to be a problem for a lot of people. The deb 
is broken on Ubuntu and from what I can tell the installer is not too 
great on other distributions either. See my posting in the GnuCash WIKI 
for details about what I had to do to get it working. Maybe it will 
help. Here is a link: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#slib_Issues

Steve Besch
Physiology and Biophysics
SUNY at Buffalo