Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

[Neil Jerram]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm on Debian 7.6 with guile-2.0.5 installed. I would like to install
> a newer version of guile. Therefore I downloaded 2.0.11 and installed
> in /usr/local with
>
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
> Everything appeared to be fine. However, with my surprise, when I
> started the newly installed guile with
>
> $ /usr/local/bin/guile
>
> I was greeted with
>
> GNU Guile 2.0.5-deb+1-3
> Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ...
>
> which correspond to the version provided by the Debian package.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible to have two guile versions
> on the same system?

This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/guile

Regards,
     Neil