Problems making & installing Guile 1.4

Problems making & installing Guile 1.4

[Byron Hale]

Hi,

The idea of Guile seems a good one. However,
I am having practical problems on a Linux 6.2,
x86 box, making & installing Guile 1.4.

I previously installed Guile 1.3 and it operates.
However, following the instructions for the
1.4 tar.gz, I cannot see any result. Operating
as root, I ./configure and make. But, when I run
"guile -v," the result is "1.3." I then tried
"make install," but the results are not detectably
different by me.

So, what now? I need 1.4 for some other
software.

Best regards,

Byron Hale
byron.hale@einfo.com



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Re: Problems making & installing Guile 1.4

[tomas]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:39:52AM -0700, Byron Hale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The idea of Guile seems a good one. However,
> I am having practical problems on a Linux 6.2,

Red Hat Linux 6.2, I assume...

> x86 box, making & installing Guile 1.4.

> I previously installed Guile 1.3 and it operates.

The distribution's own?

> However, following the instructions for the
> 1.4 tar.gz, I cannot see any result. Operating
> as root, I ./configure and make. But, when I run
> "guile -v," the result is "1.3." I then tried
> "make install," but the results are not detectably
> different by me.

If all is default, the installation goes to /usr/local,
so your new Guile is now in /usr/local/bin/guile. This
is done so that an update of your distribution doesn't
interfere with the things you install `by hand'.

So in now depends on your PATH environment variable.

In a shell window, type

  echo $PATH

You will get a colon (:) separated list of which directories
the shell searches (and in which order), like so:

  barrique:/home/moep# echo $PATH
  /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin

If /usr/bin is before /usr/local/bin (which is rather typical
for root), chances are good that this is your problem.

> 
> So, what now? I need 1.4 for some other
> software.

I guess you have already 1.4 well and alive on your box.

Regards
-- tomas

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Re: Problems making & installing Guile 1.4

[Byron Hale]

You're both quite right. It is installed. I can't readily change my path,
there are a lot of other things in "/usr/bin," so I renamed guile 1.3
and made a note to myself, incase there are any dependencies.

Some programs install with the full package name in the same directory.

At any rate, Guile 1.4 is up and running. Thanks!

Best Regards,
Byron Hale
byron.hale@einfo.com

At 11:20 AM 4/16/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:39:52AM -0700, Byron Hale wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The idea of Guile seems a good one. However,
> > I am having practical problems on a Linux 6.2,
>
>Red Hat Linux 6.2, I assume...
>
> > x86 box, making & installing Guile 1.4.
>
> > I previously installed Guile 1.3 and it operates.
>
>The distribution's own?
>
> > However, following the instructions for the
> > 1.4 tar.gz, I cannot see any result. Operating
> > as root, I ./configure and make. But, when I run
> > "guile -v," the result is "1.3." I then tried
> > "make install," but the results are not detectably
> > different by me.
>
>If all is default, the installation goes to /usr/local,
>so your new Guile is now in /usr/local/bin/guile. This
>is done so that an update of your distribution doesn't
>interfere with the things you install `by hand'.
>
>So in now depends on your PATH environment variable.
>
>In a shell window, type
>
>   echo $PATH
>
>You will get a colon (:) separated list of which directories
>the shell searches (and in which order), like so:
>
>   barrique:/home/moep# echo $PATH
>   /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
>
>If /usr/bin is before /usr/local/bin (which is rather typical
>for root), chances are good that this is your problem.
>
> >
> > So, what now? I need 1.4 for some other
> > software.
>
>I guess you have already 1.4 well and alive on your box.
>
>Regards
>-- tomas
>
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Re: Problems making & installing Guile 1.4

[Byron Hale]

At 05:40 PM 4/17/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>...
>The usual thing to do is to have /usr/local/bin *before* /usr/bin
>in your $PATH (you set that in your $HOME/.bash_profile; for a
>global setting, i.e. for all users, you'd edit /etc/profile).
>
>This way, things you install under /usr/local take precedence
>over things pre-installed in /usr, which is usually what you
>want. Your mileage might vary, of course.
>
>For root it's different. There, security considerations are
>more important than ease of use.

Actually, my own, non-root, account has the ordering that you mentioned.
I'm afraid to tinker with root's path ordering, so I'm leaving it as is.

Apparently I installed Guile 1.3 in January or February as a general good
idea and renaming 1.3 hasn't hurt me so far. Using Guile as a shell,
given that it will be made more consistent and not so dependent on
whitespace placement, etc.,  seems an excellent idea to me.

I studied SICP using Scheme and miss its continuations in SML97 and
Haskell98. I'll be following this list with interest now.

 > At any rate, Guile 1.4 is up and running. Thanks!
>Good news, then!
>Regards
>-- tomas

Byron




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