Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
I have successfully gotten slib version 3b1 to work with guile 1.8.6. The following instructions from paragraph 6.6.1 of the guile 1.8.6 manual (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SLIB-installation.html#SLIB-installation) have been corrected according to my experience (Centos 5.2,

Re: Guile and SLIB

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Tom Browder writes: > >> I am trying to get guile 1.8.6 to work (use) slib so that the >> following configure test for gnucash (www.gnucash.org) works: > > If you installed from source, did you follow the instructions from the > ma

Re: guile-lib changes

2009-01-27 Thread Mike Gran
> > On Tue 27 Jan 2009 20:14, Julian Graham writes: > > > Hi Andy, > > > > If you wouldn't mind, I'd really like it if you could take a look at > > SSAX, re: [1].  I don't have a patch handy, but I can tell you that > > the distribution released in 0.1.5 worked, but not the one in 0.1.6. > > >

Re: guile-lib changes

2009-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Andy Wingo writes: > (1) I'm looking at upping the dependency from Guile 1.6 to 1.8, as that > will let me remove things from Guile-Lib as they are added to 1.8 > and 2.0 (on both branches). An example of this already having > occurred is SRFI-34 and SRFI-35, both of which

Re: Guile and SLIB

2009-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Tom Browder writes: > I am trying to get guile 1.8.6 to work (use) slib so that the > following configure test for gnucash (www.gnucash.org) works: If you installed from source, did you follow the instructions from the manual (info "(guile) SLIB installation")? If you installed SLIB from t

Re: guile-lib changes

2009-01-27 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 27 Jan 2009 20:14, Julian Graham writes: > Hi Andy, > > If you wouldn't mind, I'd really like it if you could take a look at > SSAX, re: [1]. I don't have a patch handy, but I can tell you that > the distribution released in 0.1.5 worked, but not the one in 0.1.6. > [1] - https://gna.org

Re: Guile and SLIB

2009-01-27 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/1/27 Tom Browder : > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Linas Vepstas > wrote: > ... >> Here's a long-shot: >> >> ln -s /usr/share/slib/mklibcat.scm /usr/share/slib/mklibcat >> >> my system has this link, maybe yours is missing? > > Thanks, Linas--that got me a little farther. Now I get: > >

Re: guile-lib changes

2009-01-27 Thread Julian Graham
Hi Andy, If you wouldn't mind, I'd really like it if you could take a look at SSAX, re: [1]. I don't have a patch handy, but I can tell you that the distribution released in 0.1.5 worked, but not the one in 0.1.6. Regards, Julian [1] - https://gna.org/support/?2043 On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12

Re: Guile and SLIB

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Linas Vepstas wrote: ... > Here's a long-shot: > > ln -s /usr/share/slib/mklibcat.scm /usr/share/slib/mklibcat > > my system has this link, maybe yours is missing? Thanks, Linas--that got me a little farther. Now I get: guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (req

Re: Guile and SLIB

2009-01-27 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/1/27 Tom Browder : > I am trying to get guile 1.8.6 to work (use) slib so that the > following configure test for gnucash (www.gnucash.org) works: > > guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'printf)" > > When I do that, I get: > > ERROR: In procedure open-file: > ERROR: No such file or

guile-lib changes

2009-01-27 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Guile-libbers, A few changes in Guile-Lib. (1) I'm looking at upping the dependency from Guile 1.6 to 1.8, as that will let me remove things from Guile-Lib as they are added to 1.8 and 2.0 (on both branches). An example of this already having occurred is SRFI-34 and SRFI-35, bo

Re: Guile and SLIB

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Quoth Tom Browder : >> I am trying to get guile 1.8.6 to work (use) slib > > I had problems with SLIB a while ago and IIRC it's a [load-]path issue: > > Perhaps something in the thread beginning here: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.l

Re: Guile and SLIB

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Quoth Tom Browder : >> I am trying to get guile 1.8.6 to work (use) slib > > I had problems with SLIB a while ago and IIRC it's a [load-]path issue: > > Perhaps something in the thread beginning here: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.l

Re: Guile and SLIB

2009-01-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Tom Browder : > I am trying to get guile 1.8.6 to work (use) slib I had problems with SLIB a while ago and IIRC it's a [load-]path issue: Perhaps something in the thread beginning here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user/6477 may help. Sebastian -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Musi

Guile and SLIB

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Browder
I am trying to get guile 1.8.6 to work (use) slib so that the following configure test for gnucash (www.gnucash.org) works: guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'printf)" When I do that, I get: ERROR: In procedure open-file: ERROR: No such file or directory: "/usr/share/slib/mklibcat"