On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 06:44:28PM -0500, paul wisehart wrote: > Hi!, > > I am pretty new to guile, I am trying to install guile-ncurses. > > I'm on OpenBSD 7.2 > > I have installed the guile3 package. > That's the only guile OS package I see. > > I was able to install guile-json locally, so I am trying to install > guile-ncurses > similarly. > > I installed automake and set: > export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.69 > export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.16 > (this was also needed to install guile-json) > > I installed libunistring and libtool to get past configure errors. > > Now I can configure and make successfully with: > ./configure --prefix=/home/wise/guile CC=clang CFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' > LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib' > > This is successful. > Now I run make. > > It errors out the first time saying it can't find libguile-ncurses.so > so i: > cd src/ncurses/.libs/ > ln -s libguile-ncurses.so.12.1 libguile-ncurses.so
Yeah, around guile 3.0.7, it stopped using libltdl which would do that version number searching for you. Now, all packages that make binary extensions need to be fixed to make version-less binary extensions. That's something guile-ncurses needs to fix for itself. > > now make succeeds. > > Now i run make install, and it errors with: > mkdir: /usr/local/share/guile/site/3.0/ncurses: Permission denied > > See in my configure I set the prefix ? > This worked for json, which installed into $HOME/guile/... > (And i've used it succesfully in guile code) > > Any ideas ? For guile-ncurses configure, if you add the option --with-gnu-filesystem-hierarchy, it will try to be more strict on where it installs, so that might help. Note that you'll probably need to set GUILE_LOAD_PATH to point to the code and GUILE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_PATH to point to the libguile-ncurses.so. > > Happy to give more info or try things and report back. > Regards, Mike Gran > Thanks! > > -- > Paul > >
