Re: Install Guile 2.0.11 failed on L-Ubuntu 12.04

["Germán Arias" <germanandre@gmx.es>]

Hi Mark

On 2014-05-24 15:21:11 -0600 mark damerell <markdamerell@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Trying to install guile 2.0.11 on L-ubuntu 12.04. Shell is /bin/bash .
> 
> Downloaded the tarfile from the Gnu website.
> 
> configured with no options
> 
> make check produced warnings and "unresolved" messages and one failure,
> bug 27450. It said "please report this" but I believe that as this is a
> known
> bug, you do not want me to.
> 
> 
> make install ran with no visible error.
> 
> 
> make installcheck failed.  After several "nothing to do" messages, it said:
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/manager/downloads/guile-2.0.11/examples'
> /bin/mkdir -p box
> gcc `PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> /usr/local/bin/guile-config compile` -c box/box.c -o box/box.o
> /usr/local/bin/guile: error while loading shared libraries:
> libguile-2.0.so.22: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> box/box.c:22:22: fatal error: libguile.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> make[1]: *** [box/box.o] Error 1
> 
> 
> The shell command
> 
> guile
> 
> produces
> 
> guile: error while loading shared libraries: libguile-2.0.so.22: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> find(1) found both files:
> 
> /usr/local/include/guile/2.0/libguile.h
> /usr/local/lib/libguile-2.0.so.22
> 
> 
> I conjecture that  gcc  was using incorrect search paths. So I did:
> 
> printenv | grep -i path
> 
> and got:
> 
> XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
> XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
> DEFAULTS_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/Lubuntu.default.path
> PATH=/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/Lubuntu.mandatory.path
> 
> 
> I expected to see a  CPATH  and a  LIBRARY_PATH  as described in   man gcc.
> 
> Please is this problem known? what should I do about it? Thank you.
> 

In general, when you install something from a source tarball this is installed in non standard path. So, to use guile you should add the path where this is installed. At your file ".profile" (in your user directory) you could add:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

To use the headers, you will need make a symbolic link at /usr/include. Something like:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/include/guile/ /usr/include/

Hope this help.

Germán.