building gnucash with guile-1.8

[Geert Janssens]

Stuart,

Do you have both guile 1.8 and guile 2.0 installed ?

Geert

On Thursday 13 November 2014 20:38:29 Stuart McGraw wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 05:53 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> > On Nov 13, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >> 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
> >
> >[...]
> >
> > Where did you get GnuCash 2.6.4 from?
> 
> The download link on gnucash.org.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, good, thanks!  Then there's hope. :-)
> 
> config.log says:
>   ...
>   configure:20609: checking for Guile version >= 2.0
>   configure:20628: error: Guile 2.0 required, but 1.8.8 found
> 
> config says (line 20628 marked with *):
>   if test "$_guile_major_version" -ge "$_major_version"; then
>     ...
>   else
> *   as_fn_error $? "Guile $_guile_required_version required, but
> $_guile_prog_version found" "$LINENO" 5 fi
> 
> A little above that there is:
> 
>   _guile_required_version="$GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION"
>   if test -z "$_guile_required_version"; then
>     _guile_required_version=2.0
> 
> and sticking an echo statement in there shows that
> $GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION is empty.
> 
> As a quick hack, I changed the 2.0 to 1.8.5 and was able
> to configure and build ok but I'm not sure if the missing
> GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION value represents a problem in my
> environment or a problem in Gnucash's autoconfig logic.
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