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