GnuCash and guile

[Michael Hart]

And then you'll no doubt run into the problem outlined in Ticket #13472:

http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13472

I haven't tried the solution listed there, but hopefully that works  
for you.

Cheers,

Michael

On 11/12/2007, at 1:57 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?)
>
>> and now it apparently thinks the guile that
>> got installed isn't good enough.
>>
>> Any hints about where to go from here? I tried installing slib, but  
>> it
>> says it's already installed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Todd
>>
>> doug-spauldings-imac:~ dougspaulding$ sudo port -vf install gnucash
>> --->  Configuring gnucash
>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>> ...
>> checking for guile-config... yes
>> checking whether guile-config works... yes
>> checking for sin in -lm... yes
>> checking for guile libraries... -D_THREAD_SAFE  -lguile -lltdl
>> -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -lgmp -lm -lltdl
>> checking for guile headers... -I/opt/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE
>> checking whether guile works... yes
>> checking for guile... /opt/local/bin/guile
>> checking for guile - 1.6.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.3
>> checking for guile - 1.8.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.3
>> checking for SLIB support... configure: error:
>>
>>   Cannot find SLIB.  Are you sure you have it installed?
>>   See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347922
>
> [snip]
>
> 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"
>
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