building gnucash with guile-1.8

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Tue Nov 18 04:18:55 EST 2014


On Tuesday 18 November 2014 10:00:03 Geert Janssens wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Hmm, so you started from the release tarball ?
> 
> @John:
> Did you generate the tarball against guile 2.0 ? That would mean the
> GUILE_PROGS macro in configure.ac would have been expanded from the
> guile-2.0 sources and possibly causing this issue.
> 
> Is there a way to recreate configure from configure.ac starting from
> the tarball ?
> 
> Geert

>From reading the generated configure file, you may be able to work around this by 
setting environment variable
GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION=1.8
before running configure. I haven't tested this myself though.

Regards,

Geert


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