guile-gnome gives a strange 'guile not found' message

guile-gnome gives a strange 'guile not found' message

[David Pirotte]

Hello,

After having just installed a guile git clone and a fresh guile-gnome-platform
git clone too, [even though I still haven't g-wrap installed] I tried ./autogen.sh
and got this:

	./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
	... ...
	checking for Guile... configure: error: Guile 1.8.0 or newer is required,
	but you only have .  configure failed

Cheers,
David

;; --

	uname -r:	2.6.38-2-amd64
	which guile:	/usr/local/bin/guile
	version:		guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.1.17-f3c6

	'Related' variables defined:

		LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

	%load-path
	$1 = ("/usr/local/share/guile/2.0" "/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0"
	"/usr/local/share/guile/site" "/usr/local/share/guile")

Re: guile-gnome gives a strange 'guile not found' message

[David Pirotte]

Le Mon, 2 May 2011 16:11:33 -0300,
David Pirotte <david@altosw.be> a écrit :

> After having just installed a guile git clone and a fresh guile-gnome-platform
> 	... ...
> 	checking for Guile... configure: error: Guile 1.8.0 or newer is required,
> 	but you only have .  configure failed

This problem has been solved, thanks to  Andreas Rottmann and P. Dale Smith, many
thanks. For the record [and other users following this list maybe], my problem was
that I did set PKG_CONFIG=true while compiling guile. This leads to a 'broken'
guile-config script which prevents any S/W depending on Guile (unless the
S/W in question bypasses guile-config) to later correctly build itself.

In order to check that guile-config is 'ok' with respect to pkg-config, you may do
this [depending on the location of guile-config of course]:

	grep %pkg-config-program /usr/local/bin/guile-config

If you manually build 'things' you may also want to check your ACLOCAL_FLAGS
variable [once more depending on your --prefix settings at guile compile time]:

	export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal"

Thanks for the IRC debug help and support,
Cheers,
David