GnuCash and guile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 21:02, Todd O'Bryan wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2007 9:57 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Dec 10, 2007, at 20:45, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>>
>>> I was trying to install GnuCash and it said I didn't have guile.  
>>> So I
>>> installed guile manually
>>
>> Define manually. Did you "sudo port install guile"? Or did you
>> manually download the guile source code and compile it and install it
>> somewhere? (where?)
>
> manually: adv. "sudo port install guile" :-)
>
>
>> So you have guile 1.8.3. According to the long description of the
>> gnucash port, "Variant +guile16 is enabled by default because newer
>> guile versions do not yet work correctly with MacPorts." So gnucash
>> apparently currently only works with guile 1.6.x not guile 1.8.x.
>>
>> So, you should uninstall guile 1.8.3. Then you should sudo port
>> install gnucash, which should install guile16, slib and slib-guile16
>> for you.
>>
>> Before you begin, make sure you have the latest ports by using "sudo
>> port selfupdate"
>
> OK. I'll try that. But when I tried installing gnucash, it said guile
> was not present, so the gnucash install failed. Hopefully that was
> just a hiccup.

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