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

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 17:42 -0400, 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.
> 
> Therefore, reverting back to guile-1.6 would be a very welcome thing
> to me!
> 
> Stuart

Done!




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