Guile problem building 2.6.3 from git on Ubuntu 12.04

[Geert Janssens]

On Sunday 11 May 2014 11:25:20 Colin Law wrote:
> 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

That's odd indeed... But good to know what the workaround is. Perhaps 
installing guile-2.0 does something to the system configuration that is 
omitted from the guile-1.8 packages ?

Geert