On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
I wanted to return to using it, don't quite recall why I never installed it the last few months, but this is ringing a bell. Would love for it to stay -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
