Re: gEDA-user: Is the Guile 1.8.x dependancy holding back testing?

[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 24, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Stuart Brorson wrote:

> I would *love* to have guile-1.6.x back again.  The guile issue is one
> of the big reasons I haven't spun a CD recently.
>
> Guile 1.8 depends upon GNU's bignum package gmp, which isn't normally
> pre-installed on most common distros.  For my CD to
> successfully install gEDA, it needs to install guile-1.8.  To install
> guile-1.8 I now need to install the bugnum stuff.  This is too many
> dependencies for me to feel comfortable about bundling onto a CD with
> a fairly dumb installer.

The maintainer for the bignum stuff (gmp) is openly hostile to Mac OS  
X and refuses to deal with the platform.

So anything that works around that lossage would be nice.

-a



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