Installation Error in Guile-1.8.6

Installation Error in Guile-1.8.6

[Ahmed Majeed Khan]

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Dear Madam/Sir,
Greetings!

I was trying to install Guile 1.8.6 over my machine running Fedora Core 9 at its core. Installation displayed an error that libltdl is missing and I need libltdl from libtool, at least from libtool version 1.5.6. I downloaded libtool-2.2 from the website, extracted and copied libltdl to the directory containing Guile-1.8.6 as well. 

Now, when I tried installing either, libtool-2.2 or Guile-1.8.6, both displayed the same error as below:

./gen-scmconfig: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
make [2]: [scmconfig.h] Error 127
make [1]: [all-recursive] Error 1
make: [all] Error 2

./libtool --help generated following info:

host-triplet:  i686-pc-linux-gnu
shell:   /bin/sh
compiler: gcc
compiler flags: -g -02 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror
linker: /usr/bin/ld (gnu? yes)
libtool: (GNU libtool) 2.2.6
automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.10.1
autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61

Please tell me:
1- Do I need to install libtool-2.2 to go ahead with the installation of guile-1.8.6 or just copying libltdl is fine?
2- How to remove this error and go ahead with the installation of both, libtool-2.2 and guile-1.8.6?

Anxiously waiting reply and thanking you in anticipation.

-Ahmed

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Ahmed Majeed Khan
Graduate Research Assistant,
Wireless and Video Communications (WAVES) Lab,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 
Michigan State University (MSU), MI 48823.

Phone: 517-355-8137
Email: khanahme@msu.edu

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Re: Installation Error in Guile-1.8.6

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

"Ahmed Majeed Khan" <khanahme@msu.edu> writes:

> ./gen-scmconfig: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.7: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory

This probably means that `libltdl.so' (which comes from Libtool) is not
in the loader's search path.  If `libltdl.so' is installed, say, under
`/foo/bar', you should first "export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/foo/bar:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH".

Hope this helps,
Ludo'.