Hello,
Guile and its manual have been teaching me a lot. Thank you.
Any problems with the installation should be reported to
bug-guile@gnu.org.
I wrote up some of the details that gave me trouble while installing
guile (GNU Guile) 2.2.4. (fn:1)
For Debian 9 Guile 2.2 seems to require an installation of Guile 2.0
for shared libraries.
Maybe most people that use Guile are developers and already have
-devel packages installed:
When the messages said I needed libtdl or libunistring, I really needed
libtdl-dev and libunistring-dev.
For Debian:
The installation process mentioned the need for bdw-gc. A search(
showed me that Debian's libgc-dev package would work so a quick #
apt-get install libgc-dev let me avoid longer download, configure and
make process.
The need for libffi was, like libtdl and libunistring, met by Debian's
-dev package # apt-get install libffi-dev.
I hope this mail will help and not just distract. Eventually I'd like
to use Guile Scheme for basic programming education. The smoother the
installation process goes for non-developers, the more likely it is that
the Guile Scheme notation will be good for general education, the way
Lancelot Hogben in _Mathematics for the Millions_ about the importance
of notation.
Take it easy,
Brian Small
- (fn:1) https://write.as/bs2gs/installing-guile-2-2-4-on-two-computers
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