Re: gEDA-user: installing geda on fedora 4. Guile is missing.

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

You are the first to try an install on FC4.  Congratulations!

I am worried that you might have gcc-4 on your machine.  If you do,
then guile will be the least of your worries.  Gcc-4 apparently does
much more strict typechecking than its antecedants, so lots of gEDA
programs will fail to compile.  All gEDA developers (me too) need to
try compiling our apps using gcc-4, and then clean them up if
necessary!  This is a big deal -- otherwise gEDA cannot have another
release!  

Anyway, as for your guile problems, it looks like the program
guile-config has been removed with the 1.6.7 release.  My guess is
that guile-config has been replaced by pkg-config, which is where most
*-config programs on Linux are moving.  Unfortunately, my installer
needs guile-config in order to know how to use guile.  Guile-config
was present as of 1.6.3.  

My suggestion:  

1.  First verify that you have no guile-config on your system ("locate
    guile-config").  
2.  Verify that your pkg-config works for guile.  Try "pkg-config
    --modversion guile"
3.  In /usr/bin create a shell script called guile-config.  In the
    shell script, have a single line "pkg-config guile ${0}".  The
    idea is to fool the installer into calling pkg-config when it
    tries to use guile-config.
4.  Test out your new guile-config shell script before running the
    installer.

Yes, this is rather complicated, but if you have enough unix-fu, then
you'll understand what I am trying to do.  In any event, I will need
to modify the installer to be a little more intelligent about looking
for guile.  That is a project for another day. . . . .

Alternately, you can just install by hand, using the tarballs on the
CD.  :-(  

Stuart








> 
> I am trying to install geda from geda-install-20050830.iso on a system=20
> with a clean install of fedora 4 (workstation)
> 
> Before trying the install I did the following to check some prerequests
> 
> [troy@localhost ~]$ guile -v
> Guile 1.6.7
> Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free=20
> Software Foundation
> Guile may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licenc=
> e;
> certain other uses are permitted as well. For details, see the file
> `COPYING', which is included in the Guile distribution.
> There is no warranty, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> [troy@localhost ~]$ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
> 2.6.7
> 
> [troy@localhost ~]$ pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0
> -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0=20
> -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0=20
> -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2=20
> -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/usr/include/glib-2.0=20
> -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
> 
> It looked to me like I was good to go so I started the installer. For=20
> some reasion the installer could not find guile.
> See cut from log file
> 
> which guile-config
> which: no guile-config in=20
> (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/troy=
> /bin)
> We need to install guile-config on this machine. We'll do that in a minut=
> e.
> 
> The installer then tries to build guile but fails. ( I havent figured=20
> out why yet) althought I am not sure why its building it again.
> cut form log file
> 
> guile.c: In function =E2=80=98main=E2=80=99:
> guile.c:91: error: array type has incomplete element type
> guile.c:91: warning: unused variable =E2=80=98lt_preloaded_symbols=E2=80=99
> make[1]: *** [guile.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-1.6.4/libguile'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> 
> 
> ------- Next command -------
> Sending /sbin/ldconfig -v
> /sbin/ldconfig -v
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib:
> 
> and then much later in the install the installer errors out when guile=20
> cant be found during make libgeda_config
> cut from log file
> 
> checking for guile... no
> configure: error: guile required but not found
> make: *** [libgeda_config] Error 1
> Failure executing command "make libgeda_config", ReturnCode =3D 2
> 
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Error! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> Failure while configuring "make libgeda_config", shall I continue with=20
> remainder of programs?
> I have experienced an error while installing this program!
> Error string: Failure while configuring "make libgeda_config", shall I=20
> continue with remainder of programs?
> 
> I havent had time to do a manual build yet but I thought I would see if=20
> anyone else has fought this one yet.
> 
> Thanks
> Troy
> 
> 
>