Re:Solution -- Gnumeric and gnome-games

[tommiy <tommiy ozemail com au>]

If anybody is really interested in how to actually to get this to work
try the following procedure.

1. Remove guile-1.3 its not a good package even though it distributed as
an extra source rpm.
2. Goto rhcn and grab guile-1.3 rpms from there. This package actually
include the config files that a later compile of gnome-games/gnumeric
require.
3. Get the tar of gnome-games-1.0.2.tar.gz expand it and edit the spec
file so that it refers to the correct version. Yes the release of 1.0.2
has defined 1.0.1 in the spec file!
4. either re-tar-gz the file or move the source and spec to the correct
place and then rpm -ta or rpm -ba.

Now everything should actually build (plus a few warnings etc).

If you try and just do steps 3 & 4 you will see that configure does not
find guile at all and reports that it is not present on the machine.

The above process worked for me!


tommiy wrote:
> 
> I have a problem with gnome. Question is which guile package should be
> installed? guile-1.2 as per the web page or guile-1.3 as per the distro.
> If you have guile-1.3 installed then gnome-games and gnumeric will not
> install as they require libguile.so.2
> 
> Attempting to build gnumeric from the src results in this error in
> configure
> 
> checking whether guile works... no
> configure: warning: Can not find Guile on this system
> 
> But guile 1.3 is installed and libgtop-examples requires it.
> 
> rpm -e guile-1.3-2 guile-devel-1.3-2
> removing these packages would break dependencies:
>         libguile.so.4 is needed by libgtop-examples-1.0.1-1
> 
> Yet gnumeric and games require the earlier package.
> 
> and yes this is the latest rpms available.
> 
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