building from source.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> writes:

> So I installed Fedora 19 in a VM (The UI is as bad as I thought it was
> going to be but at least they have a GNOME classic look which although
> not as good as it used to be, is at least tolerable) installed
> autogen, automake, libtool intltool swig and guile-devel but I get
> this error when trying o compile:
>
> $ ../configure --enable-compile-warnings --enable-debug
> ...
> checking for guile-1.8 >= 1.8.5... no
> checking for guile-2.0 >= 2.0.0... yes
> checking GUILE_CFLAGS... -pthread -I/usr/include/guile/2.0  
> checking GUILE_LIBS... -lguile-2.0 -lgc  
> checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
> checking if guile needs our copy of (guile www)... ../configure: line
> 20830: syntax error near unexpected token `gnc_have_guile_www,'
> ../configure: line 20830:
> GUILE_MODULE_AVAILABLE(gnc_have_guile_www,(www main))'
>
> I've checked all the dependencies listed here
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Dependencies
>
> Steve
>
> ---- Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote
>> You are probably missing a bunch of -devel packages. This one looks
>> like guile.  Yet running yum-builddep gnucash to pull in most of the
>> deps. Also read the README.dependencies doc
>
> guile-devel would be the obvious one but I had already checked that
> before I posted.
> I ran yum-builddep gnucash and pulled in a couple of extra packages
> but I still get the same error. The fact that it reports a syntax
> error makes me think there could be a bug in the configure script.

GUILE_MODULE_AVAILABLE is defined in /usr/share/aclocal/guile.m4 (at
least on my F18 system).  On my system this is in guile-devel, but in
F18 it's guile-1.8, not guile-2.  Make sure you have that file
installed; you may need to find the right package using 'yum provides'

> Steve

-derek

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