Fwd: gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6, cannot find guile, yet I have guile 1.8

[Derek Atkins]

Did you install slib from your distro?
-derek

Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi;
>
> Still having configure problems, even after installing guile-devel and
> Slib and making a symlink as the hint from the configure output
> suggested...
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 21:50
> Subject: Re: gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6,
> cannot find guile, yet I have guile 1.8
> To: Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
> Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>
>
> Hi Derek;
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 09:47, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> ....
>>> checking whether guile works... no
>>> configure: WARNING: Can not find Guile on this system
>>> checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>  which guile
>>> /usr/bin/guile
>>> [kwolcott at localhost gnucash-2.2.9]$ guile --version
>>> Guile 1.8.0
>>
>> As the error message says, "Perhaps you have not installed the guile
>> development packages?"   Do you have guile-devel installed?
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ken Wolcott
>>
>> -derek
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> 1. I did not have guile-devel installed.
> 2. I do now.
> 3. Got further.  Ran into errors with SLIB.
> 4. Followed the advice in both the bugid's provided (installed Slib
> and created a symlink); problem persists.
>
> Current status: ./configure fails at SLIB.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott
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