Guile problem building 2.6.3 from git on Ubuntu 12.04

[John Ralls]

On May 12, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The issue is that guile.m4 is no longer included in the guile-1.8-dev
> package, only in the guile-2.0-dev package.  So you need to:
> 
> install guile-2.0-dev
> run autogen.sh
> switch to guile-1.8-dev
> run configure
> 
> If you don't like this then you should complain to your distribution
> packagers.

That's not what http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/guile-1.8-dev/filelist says.

Regards,
John Ralls