On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 05:14:32PM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > > It's the guile command that fails trying to build a catalog of the slib > files. This is a scheme (Lisp) library, text files with lisp code in > them. If it was just c or c++ it wouldn't be so bad but this rubbish > smells like latex/texlive to me. This is an ex parrot. It has ceased to > be... > I think gnucash developers nailed it to its perch in the hope nobody would notice. > In the book I see guile mentioned on the gnucash and slib pages > (obviously) as well as the pages for: gnutls, aisleriot, gnome-games, > gconf1, autogen and graphviz so reverting to guile-1.8.8 would have > implications to those other packages. The only one of those I install > is gnutls and it seems quite happy without guile. >
I've built gnutls without. No idea about graphviz, I *suspect* the others can probably be made to use 1.8 (aisleriot assumes 1.8 so needs --with-guile=2.0). Gnome-games-3.2.1 no longer uses guile according to my notes (solitaire has been separated into aisleriot). But, I've no plans to try. If someone wants to build gnome-3 with old guile, I'd be interested to know how it turns out. We've been using guile-2 since 13th November. If it was practical to install the old version beside it, that might be the way to go, but it looks to me as if the only way to do that would be to put guile-1.8 in a different prefix and ensure that prefix came at the start of $PATH and $PKG_CONFIG_PATH when building gnucash, and was otherwise ignored. > Reverting to guile-1.8.8 is the only way I can see of fixing gnucash. > Personally I'm happy with gnucash and slib out of the book ;) > Anybody else want gnucash, slib and guile-1.8.8? > > Andy I'm less than keen to drop gnucash, given that it *appears* to be useful to some people. For slib, I too would be happy to drop it. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
