Re: Fedora 19 comes with guile 2.0.9 - cannot use 2.17.22

[Julien Rioux]

On 13/07/2013 6:52 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> > I read also that:
> > "The packages will have to be patched to Require and BuildRequire the
> > compat-guile18(-devel) package. Furthermore, they will have to be
> > patched (if necessary) to use the renamed autotools macros. The
> > patches to spec files and autotools macros are easy to implement.
> > Packages that are already built will not have to be rebuilt (there are
> > no soname bumps in the compat package) and should function without any
> > problems. Only new releases will have to be patched."
> >
> > This confirms that lilypond cannot be built without modification. I
> > just have to find these "easy to implement" patches... If someone has
> > ideas!
>
> I found in the src rpm what to do:
> export GUILE=/usr/bin/guile1.8
> export GUILE_CONFIG=/usr/bin/guile1.8-config
> export GUILE_TOOLS=/usr/bin/guile1.8-tools
>
> that works now! Any possibility to do that automatically in configure?
> Frédéric

I don't think ./configure should do this automatically, but at the very 
least, it should fail when it finds a guile version that is incompatible 
with our source code. Can you please open an issue for it\?

Cheers,
Julien