gnucash won't build with guile16 and won't run with guile (1.8)

[Triston Whetten]

Take a gander at http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/ 
13472.

Triston.

On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Mike Procario wrote:

>
>
> On 2/7/08, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey at goldmark.org> wrote: When I  
> get a chance later today, I'll submit a proper bug report, but
> I wanted to know if anyone has gnucash from macports running.
>
> To briefly summarize, when I install guile and slib-guile and build
> gnucash with
>
>     -guile16 +without_docs
>
> gnucash builds fine, but fails on start-up with a scheme error.
>
> When I install guile16 and slib-guile16 and try to build gnucash with
>
>    +guile16 +without_docs
>
> The gnucash build fails during configure, saying that it can't find
> the guile libraries and headers.
>
> I'll post details of the actual error once I've gathered all of that.
> But I'm hoping that someone will recognize this from the incomplete
> description I've given and point me to some work-around.
>
> (My work-around at the moment is to run gnucash on another machine.)
>
>
> I have just joined the list so I do not know if there are better  
> answers.  I also can not get gnucash to compile, but I got past the  
> guile16 problem. Also I port synced yesterday and I was able to  
> build the docs. In order to get gnucash to configure I made  
> symbolic links to guile16 called guile and guile16-config called  
> guile-config. I do not have guile18 installed. I guess that the  
> configure  input can be patched to fix this properly, but I have  
> not figured that out yet.
>
> At the moment I am running gnucash on Windows in a Parallels VM. Ugh.
>
> Mike
>