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[Jason Flatt <jasonflatt AT wizard.com>]

On Tuesday 24 September 2002 04:31 am, Robin wrote:
>
> Reminds me: gnucash fails compiling with:
> checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
> checking for guile - 1.3.4 <= version < 1.5.0... no
> configure: warning: guile version check failed
> configure: error:
>
>   guile does not appear to be installed correctly, or is not in the
>   correct version range.  Right now gnucash requires at least version
>   1.3.4 to build, but does not work with 1.5 or greater.
>
> robin@kallisti:~$ gaze installed guile
> 1.6.0
>
> Personally, I'm hoping the gnucash developers fix this to prevent my
> steadily sinking bank account :)


If it doesn't break any other spells by doing it, you could dispel guile, 
manually edit the DETAILS file to specify a valid version, then recast guile. 
 
You could also downgrade gnucash in the same way.

This has been reported as bugs 883, 1025 and 968 in Bugzilla.


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