From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rvclayton@acm.org (R. Clayton) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: guile-www install. Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:53:46 -0500 Message-ID: <87r5rk4wkl.fsf@UlanBator.myhome.westell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259283258 6302 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2009 00:54:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:54:18 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 01:54:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDp6B-0004FX-EI for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:54:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDp6B-0006fV-8Y for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:54:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDp68-0006f1-B6 for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:54:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDp63-0006W5-Jq for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51790 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDp63-0006W2-Dl for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:54:03 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38561) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDp63-0003sC-0z for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:54:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NDp60-0004DQ-VC for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:54:00 +0100 Original-Received: from pool-96-234-6-110.nwrknj.east.verizon.net ([96.234.6.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:54:00 +0100 Original-Received: from rvclayton by pool-96-234-6-110.nwrknj.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:54:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-96-234-6-110.nwrknj.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cu4U381Qo5xjB8JXRim0dNH91jg= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:7503 Archived-At: I installed guile on a debian testing system: $ dpkg -l guile* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un guile (no description available) ii guile-1.8 1.8.7+1-2 The GNU extension language and Scheme interp ii guile-1.8-doc 1.8.7+1-2 Documentation for Guile 1.8 un guile-1.8-doc- (no description available) ii guile-1.8-libs 1.8.7+1-2 Main Guile libraries $ and then I wanted to install guile-www 2.26 (the latest, I believe), but ran into this: ul pwd /usr/local/src/guile-www-2.26 $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile checking for guile-config... no configure: error: guile-config required but not found $ Peeking ahead in configure, it seems it will also die when it looks for guile-tools. $ locate guile-config $ locate guile-tools $ This suggests that something is out of whack, but I don't know (apart from the obvious) what it might be. What's the explanation, and the fix?