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

[David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>]

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