Re: [Slib-discuss] fedora 9

[Aubrey Jaffer]

 | Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:57:59 -0700 (PDT)
 | From: w bugar <address@hidden>
 | 
 | To me, these errors are from the rpm not from guile.  no?

No.  In the transcript below, the "if type guile; then guile ..."
tests whether Guile is installed and runs Guile only if it is.  If
Guile is not installed, then that error will not occur.

 | Compiling guile is the next step.
 | 
 | Thx,
 | Bill
 | 
 | --- Aubrey Jaffer <address@hidden> wrote:
 |  
 | >  | Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:29:27 -0700 (PDT)
 | >  | From: w bugar <address@hidden>
 | >  | 
 | >  | Hi, I'm trying to get slib installed on a system
 | >  | running fedora core 9 (so I can get guile installed so
 | >  | I can get something else installed....), anyway I'm
 | >  | getting the following errors if anyone's interested:
 | >  | 
 | >  | address@hidden Fedora9]# rpm -i slib-3b1-1.noarch.rpm
 | >  | PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin
 | >  | if type scm; then scm -c "(require 'new-catalog)"; fi
 | >  | /bin/sh: line 0: type: scm: not found
 | >  | if type guile; then guile -l guile.init -c\
 | >  |           "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)"; fi
 | >  | guile is /usr/bin/guile
 | >  | ERROR: In procedure open-file:
 | >  | ERROR: No such file or directory: "/usr/lib/slib/require"
 | >  | make: [catalogs] Error 1 (ignored)
 | > 
 | > Guile is trying to find SLIB in /usr/lib/slib/, but
 | > slib-3b1-1.noarch.rpm puts it in /usr/share/slib/. 
 | > You can fix this
 | > by defining the environment variable
 | > SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH to
 | > "/usr/share/slib/" or by creating a link from
 | > /usr/share/slib/ to
 | > /usr/lib/slib/.