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From: "Bryce L Nordgren" <bnordgren@gmail.com>
To: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Guile 1.8.2 / SLIB 3a4 incompatibility
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:23:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b60e61a0709180723n1422fc74q618b86a7bb80b012@mail.gmail.com> (raw)


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1st: I don't know anything about Scheme.  Scheme/SLIB is required for
GnuCash which has ~4 years of my books in it.  I do however have a decade or
so of C/C++/Java/Python/Linux Admin experience.

Problem #1: README contains incorrect SLIB install instructions.  Running
"guile-config info pkgdatadir" returns '/root/my-applications/share/guile'
(Financial constraints have pushed me back to a Pentium MMX on which I'm
running puppylinux.  Wife took the good computer to school.  Will deal with
"root" use later.)  However, according to the info file, the correct
directory is '/root/my-applications/share/guile/site'.  So...which is
correct?  Info file or README.

Problem #2: With SLIB 3a4 installed in either directory above, I get:

> guile> (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
> ERROR: Unbound variable: slib:features
> ABORT: (unbound-variable)
> guile>


Instructions at the end of the "info" file say:

 If instead you get an error such as:

          Unbound variable: scheme-implementation-type

     then a solution is to get a newer version of Guile, or to modify
     `ice-9/slib.scm' to use `define-public' for the offending
     variables.



Yes I searched for problem reports and found this w.r.t. Guile 1.8.1 and
Slib 3a4:
http://osdir.com/ml/lisp.guile.bugs/2006-11/msg00010.html
After editing according to the instructions and replacing the slib.scm file
in the ice-9 directory, out pops a page full of error messages that nothing
in this life has prepared me to parse.

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-18 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18 14:23 Bryce L Nordgren [this message]
2007-09-19 20:13 ` Guile 1.8.2 / SLIB 3a4 incompatibility Ludovic Courtès
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2007-09-20 14:17 Bryce L Nordgren
2007-10-02  3:37 ` Ludovic Courtès

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