RE: Newbie trying to use/install on Fedora 5

2006-04-25 Thread Norton, Jack
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jon Wilson Sent: Tue 4/25/2006 12:04 AM To: guile-user Subject: Re: Newbie trying to use/install on Fedora 5 Hi Olwe, Just as a note, probably many people have told you this already, but Fedora is not your best bet for a newbie. Redhat is

Re: Newbie trying to use/install on Fedora 5

2006-04-24 Thread Jon Wilson
Hi Olwe, Just as a note, probably many people have told you this already, but Fedora is not your best bet for a newbie. Redhat is focused very firmly on the server/enterprise market, and has said that they don't really care all that much about the desktop. Meaning, of course, that their deskt

Re: Newbie trying to use/install on Fedora 5

2006-04-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Olwe Bottorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to install > 1.8 into a sandbox of sorts? As with all GNU software, you can choose a different installation path and maybe even a different executable suffix to make sure that your two versions of Guile can coexist. For example:

Re: Newbie trying to use/install on Fedora 5

2006-04-19 Thread Olwe Bottorff
Okay, found /usr/share/libtools and found libltdl source. Compiled and installed. (Odd, why wasn't it already installed, Fedora?) Now guile 1.8 ./configure was happy and so was the glorious make. But I hesitate before make install. I tried a rpm -e of the default Fed5 guile1.6.7, but it complained

Re: Newbie trying to use/install on Fedora 5

2006-04-19 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Apr 19, 2006, at 15:22, Olwe Bottorff wrote: I've apparently got basic guile (1.6.7) on my new Fed5, but it can't see/find anything else such as guile-config or libguile.h or, or, ori.e., can't follow along with the "book" on embedding guile in C. See if there's a "guile-devel" package y