Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, > As far as I inderstand the Debian package manager mantains a package > database. This is the place where it looks for installed packages. So, > if I have a newer version of guile which is not installed through the > package manager, the package manager will not know about it. even if you

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Beffa
Chris Vine writes: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:46:07 +0200 > Federico Beffa wrote: > [snip] >> Your guess is correct: The distribution that I'm using (Debian wheezy) >> ships 2.0.5 as the newest guile version and I need to keep it to >> satisfy dependencies of other distribution supplied packages.

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Chris Vine
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:46:07 +0200 Federico Beffa wrote: [snip] > Your guess is correct: The distribution that I'm using (Debian wheezy) > ships 2.0.5 as the newest guile version and I need to keep it to > satisfy dependencies of other distribution supplied packages. > However, I would like to exp

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Mark H Weaver
Neil Jerram writes: > On 2014-09-15 02:16, m...@netris.org wrote: >> Federico Beffa writes: >> >>> I notice that there is an /etc/ld.so.cache file. Do I somehow need >>> to update >>> it? >> >> Yes, you update it by running "ldconfig" as root. This needs to be >> done >> when installing librari

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Beffa
Chris Vine writes: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:16:39 -0400 > m...@netris.org wrote: >> Federico Beffa writes: >> >> > Neil Jerram writes: >> > >> >> >> >> This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this: >> >> >> >> $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/guile >> >> >> >> Regards, >

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Chris Vine
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:22:27 +0200 Federico Beffa wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Neil Jerram [snip] > > However, won't it also cause /usr/bin/guile (2.0.5) to load > > /usr/local/lib/libguile* (2.0.11) ? If not, what is the mechanism > > that tells /usr/bin/guile (2.0.5) to load /usr/

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Chris Vine
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:16:39 -0400 m...@netris.org wrote: > Federico Beffa writes: > > > Neil Jerram writes: > > > >> > >> This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this: > >> > >> $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/guile > >> > >> Regards, > >> Neil > > > > With this it

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Beffa
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: > On 2014-09-15 02:16, m...@netris.org wrote: >> >> Federico Beffa writes: >> >>> Neil Jerram writes: >>> This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/guile >>>

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Neil Jerram
On 2014-09-15 02:16, m...@netris.org wrote: Federico Beffa writes: Neil Jerram writes: This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/guile Regards, Neil With this it works! I notice that there is an /etc/ld.so.cache file. D

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Federico Beffa skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> It may be that, while /usr/local/bin/guile is indeed from the new >> version, it ends up loading .scm and .go files from the old version. >> >> You could check that by running: >> >> strace -o log /usr/local/bin/guile --versi