building from source.

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Nov 8, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>> 
>> See, if you install compat-guile18-devel, configure will detect guile 
>> 1.8 on your system, but the guile binary for 1.8 is called guile1.8. But 
>> gnucash only checks for "guile", which is the name of the guile 2.0 
>> binary. So in this setup, you end up with CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for guile 
>> 1.8, but with the guile executable for guile 2.0.
>
> We'd prefer Guile 2.0 if it's available, right? Should we invert the
> test so that we look
> for Guile 2.0 first and fallback to Guile 1.8?

Probably not a bad idea, but we don't necessarily know what the
user-space 'guile' app is going to be called.  Is "guile" 1.8 or 2.0?

> Regards,
> John Ralls

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-derek

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