On vrijdag 20 mei 2011, Mike Alexander wrote: > --On May 18, 2011 7:23:38 PM +0200 Geert Janssens > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On vrijdag 6 mei 2011, John Ralls wrote: > >> On May 6, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Daniel Kraft wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > I'm not able to build Gnucash 2.4.5 with Guile 2 installed -- > >> > which is not too surprising, since the API and architecture of > >> > Guile changed a lot since 1.8. Is this expected, or is there some > >> > way I can build Gnucash without having to install also an old > >> > Guile somewhere? Are there plans to switch to the new API (or in > >> > general, support Guile 2)? > >> > >> It's expected. We haven't done anything with Guile2. Heck, we just > >> got rid of the Guile 1.6 dependencies in trunk. I'm afraid you're > >> stuck with having to have both versions installed for awhile. > >> > >> Regards, > >> John Ralls > > > > If you are adventurous though, you could try to build GnuCash from > > trunk. I have applied a number of patches by Andy Wingo [1] that > > should make GnuCash work with Guile 2. It would be a nice test to > > see if that actually works. > > > > Standard disclaimer: note that such an attempt is at your own risk. > > Trunk is not considered production quality and using it may cause > > crashes and data loss. > > > > If you want to try it and have further questions, I suggest you > > subscribe to the gnucash-devel list and post your findings there. > > Just out of curiosity I gave this a try today. I got it to build ok, > but it doesn't run since SWIG hasn't been updated to work with Guile2. > There seems to be some progress on this, however [1] so there's hope. > Ok, thanks for trying. At least we know where the bottleneck is now.
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