Tobin Harding <m...@tobin.cc> writes: > My question is this, please, how to replace the system version with > the fresh build.
Hi Tobin. You can run 'sudo make install' in the source directory to install the package. If you haven't specified an explicit value for $prefix when running ./configure, it will be installed in /usr/local, so you will need to export e.g. PATH=/usr/local/bin:... and possibly some more environment variables to be able to use it. To uninstall again, you need to run 'sudo make uninstall' in the source directory. (If you delete the source directory, or clean it and thus lose the Makefile, you won't be able to run that command. Though rebuilding the same version of Guile with the same ./configure options should result in the same Makefile, so you can then run 'make uninstall' again.) Alternatively: this may seem overkill, but one way to get fresh versions of Guile 2.1 and many other tools is to use GNU Guix, which can be seamlessly installed as an extra package manager on top an existing distro (it will *not* interfere with the existing system): 1. Follow the instructions at: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html 2. Install packages via the command "guix package -i foo bar baz ..." 3. At the end of the "guix package -i ..." command, you will be told what environment variables you need to export for to be able to use those packages seamlessly. Alternatively to #3: you can run "guix environment --ad-hoc foo bar baz" to launch a shell with environment variables already set up so that the packages foo, bar, and baz are available. (They will be downloaded or locally built transparently.) BTW the Guile 2.1 package is called "guile-next" in Guix. Hope that helps, Taylan
