Re: gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6, cannot find guile, yet I have guile 1.8

2010-01-06 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi Derek; On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 08:04, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Kenneth Wolcott writes: > >>> Why not just use the distro's gnucash package? >>> * All recent versions of Fedora have 2.2.9:  yum install gnucash >>> * In CentOS you can get gnucas

RHEL install of GnuCash on CentOS 5.4; starts and ends with a flash

2010-01-06 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; I gave up on trying to install GnuCash on CentOS 5.4 from source :-( I then did an RHEL install of GnuCash via yum. It starts and ends with a flash like a big camera flash. So what distribution of Linux do I need to install so that I can have GnuCash present and working? Obviousl

Re: gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6, cannot find guile, yet I have guile 1.8

2010-01-05 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi Derek; On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 05:57, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Kenneth Wolcott writes: > >> Thanks for your response. >> >> 1. I did not have guile-devel installed. >> 2. I do now. >> 3. Got further.  Ran into errors with SLIB. >> 4.

Re: gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6, cannot find guile, yet I have guile 1.8

2010-01-05 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi Derek; On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 09:47, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Kenneth Wolcott writes: > >> >> checking whether guile works... no >> configure: WARNING: Can not find Guile on this system >> checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile >> checki

gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6, cannot find guile, yet I have guile 1.8

2010-01-03 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; I don't know enough about configure options to encourage gnucash to look for guile 1.8 Looks like a bug in how guile version is checked/verified... Don't know enough (forgot what I did know!) about autoconf and friends CentOS 5.4 gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6, ca