For the record, this is now bug# 128701 -derek
Benoit Grégoire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think this discussion on IRC today was worth posting here for the records: > > <CoolPops> Im trying to make gnucash work and when running it I am recieving > this error: <unnamed port>: slib:require unsupported feature format ... does > anyone have any ideas? > <benoitg> CoolPops: Never heard about that. Which version, what platform? > <CoolPops> 1.8.8 and I am running ArchLinux. I will tell you that my system is > based upon Gnome 2.4 and I compiled the required gnome 1.4 components into a > sep dir (/opt/gnome14). > <CoolPops> The compile of gnucash went just fine (after finding all it's > dependencies). > <CoolPops> The splash screen gets to utility-reports, that's when it quits. > <CoolPops> I dawe a full backtrace, do you think that would help? > <CoolPops> ....I mean: I have > <CoolPops> The error appears to be in iframe-url.scm on line 7 (require > 'format) > <CoolPops> hum, I figured it out (kinda). format no longer exists in slib. > It's one of the FAQ's. > <CoolPops> What version of slib should I be using? > <benoitg> Checking > <CoolPops> benoitg, thanks. > <benoitg> My slib stuff appear to be part of guile-compat-1.4.1 and > umb-scheme-3.2 > <benoitg> But you are not supposed to be fine with guile 1.6+, afaik > <CoolPops> hum. I'll do some more research. (google.com :) > <benoitg> Good luck > <CoolPops> benoitg, does the cvs copy (gnucash) build against 2.4 gnome? > <benoitg> CoolPops: the gnome 2 branch does, but many basic functionnality > doesn't run yet. There is still several months of work to do. > <CoolPops> benoitg, ok, I'll still hang with the 1.4 edition then, thank you > for your help. > benoitg is now known as benoitg-afknp > benoitg-afknp is now known as benoitg > <benoitg> np > Signoff: chkr (Ping timeout: 600 seconds) > <CoolPops> benoitg, I installed version slib-2d6 and all works great. Put the > new v3 on and it breaks... so, incase anyone else wonders, 2d6 works 3 does > not (missing format.scm ... the author of slib doesn't like it for some > reason and removed it from newer releases) > > > -- > Benoit Grégoire, http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/ > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
