Hey everyone, I was wondering if it's possible to have guile 1.8 and guile 2.0 installed on the same system? I remember reading in the documentation that it is, but I haven't been able to pull it off yet, except by using different --prefix values for each.
The problem is that the distro I'm using (Archlinux) has guile 1.8 in its repository and certain applications (like xbindkeys and freetalk) still depend on it being this version. There are also at least two packages in the Arch User Repository that provide guile 2.0, but these both conflict with 1.8, so I can't yet install both. I've tried a couple of times: I've used the --program-suffix argument to make all binaries end with 2 (guile2, guild2, etc.), kind of like Python does, but this doesn't help with the symlink of guile-tools (for backwards compatibility). The --infodir argument is useful for keeping the documentation seperate. That still leaves guile.m4. I don't know enough about the autotools to know what to do with guile.m4. Does automake/autoconf expect the file name to match something, or does it only look at the definitions inside, in which case it could simply be moved. I've been looking at it for a while now and I'd really just like to know if it's possibly to have both on the system and be able to use everything in the 'regular' way. I hope my question is clear. Thanks in advance! Cheers, Tom
