building gnucash with guile-1.8

[John Ralls]

On Nov 13, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> wrote:

> I was able to build gnucash-2.6.1 on my ancient Fedora-15
> system with guile-1.8.8 using the standard "./configure && 
> make install" dance with no problems.
> 
> But when I try with gnucash-2.6.4. ./configure complains:
> 
> [...]
> checking for guile-1.8 >= 1.8.5... yes
> checking GUILE_CFLAGS... -pthread  
> checking GUILE_LIBS... -lguile  
> checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
> checking for Guile version >= 2.0... configure: error: Guile 2.0 required, but 1.8.8 found
> 
> README.dependencies says guile >= 1.8.5 is ok. I did not see anything
> in the NEWS file about dropped support for guile-1.8.  
> 
> Can/How do I get gnucash to build with guile-1.8?
> 

Where did you get GnuCash 2.6.4 from?

We build GnuCash on Windows with Guile 1.8.8, so I’m quite confident that it builds just fine. Dig into config.log for more details about exactly what failed.

Regards,
John Ralls