"Ricardo G. Herdt" <r.he...@posteo.de> writes: > afaik you typically need the -dev version of the packages, in this case > libunistring-dev. > Regards, Ricardo
Thank you. That worked to get past that problem, but it's not done yet. I have been lurking on this mailing list since the days of Aubrey Jaffar and Tom Lord (~30years) and from time to time downloading and compiling another version of Guile on another version of Linux. I don't remember ever having so much trouble with configure; make. The INSTALL file that comes in the tarball is totally inadequate! How many mystery dependencies do I need to understand? Now it says: configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBFFI_CFLAGS and LIBFFI_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. To get pkg-config, see <http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>. See `config.log' for more details I don't have pkg-config installed, and have no idea how to sef LIBFFI to avoid the need to call it. Acording to the web page, pkg-config is a program to read *.pc files. Where do those come from? I don't see them in the tarball. -- Keith > Am 20.11.2023 04:01 schrieb Keith Wright: >> I am trying to install guile from source tarball. >> Of course, I had to install a couple of other things (gmp,m4,etc.) >> but that's done. gmp from source, other things with apt-get. >> I'm stuck on libunistring. It seems libunistring is not in Debian >> but I have libunistring2 already installed: >> >> kwright@fcs26:~/.build/guile-3.0.9$ ./configure >> configure: error: GNU libunistring is required, please insstall it. >> >> root@fcs26:~# apt-get install libunistring >> E: Unable to locate package libunistring >> >> root@fcs26:~# apt-get install libunistring2 >> libunistring2 is already the newest version (1.0-2). >> >> What should I do? >> >> -- Keith
