>> Mhmm, compiling and installing guile 1.8 is not rocket science... > > Probably not, but ... > >> Have you tried that already? > > ... i am not familiar enough with all this packaging stuff to be > confident about installing alternative versions to system installed > packages ...
You would install that locally – this is simpler than global locations like `/usr/local'. > Where would I find suitable documentation or tutorials to do so > (doesn't have to be explicitly about Guile 1.8 vs. 2 of course)? It's rather simple. cd ~ mkdir gnu-packages wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.8.tar.gz tar xzvf guile-1.8.8.tar.gz cd guile-1.8.8 ./configure --disable-error-on-warning --prefix=`pwd`/../gnu-packages Check the `configure' output carefully (which gets logged in file `config.log'); it tells you what you have to install as prerequisites besides a C compiler. If you get a failure, siply restart the `configure' script (with all options) until it succeeds. Finally, do make make install That's it. If you configure and build lilypond, do it with PATH=~/gnu-packages/bin:$PATH ./configure ... so that `guile-config' from version 1.8.8 gets found before the one from the OS. Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
