Guile problem building 2.6.3 from git on Ubuntu 12.04

[Colin Law]

On 11 May 2014 10:34, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Building from the tag 2.6.3 in git on Ubuntu 12.04 I have this error
> during configure
>
> checking for guile-1.8 >= 1.8.5... yes
> checking GUILE_CFLAGS... -pthread
> checking GUILE_LIBS... -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -lguile -lgmp -lcrypt -lm -lltdl
> ../configure: line 20528: syntax error near unexpected token
> `gnc_have_guile_www,'
> ../configure: line 20528: `
> GUILE_MODULE_AVAILABLE(gnc_have_guile_www,(www main))'
>
> I have guile-1.8, guile-1.8-dev and swig installed.
> Google suggested that this could be caused by
> /usr/share/aclocal/guile.m4 not being found, but this file is present.

Strange, I installed guile-2.0 and guile-2.0-dev (which removed
1.8-dev) and tried again.  This time it said that swig was to early a
version and since a later one is not available in the repos I removed
2.0 again and a couple of packages that were installed automatically
and put back 1.8 and now it configures ok.  So what was going on there
I do not know.

Colin