Re: installing older guile version

[Thomas Morley]

2017-11-13 8:48 GMT+01:00 Christian Alpen <address@hidden>:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a problem installing an older guile-version.
>
> I wanted to install a development-version of lilypond, which quits with
> following error:
>
> *WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs or files:  guile-2.0
> < 1.9.0 (installed: 2.0.13)
>
> ERROR: Please install required programs:  guile-config < 1.9.0 (installed:
> 2.0.13) (guile-devel, guile-dev or libguile-dev package) libguile
> (libguile-dev, guile-devel or guile-dev package).
> GUILE-with-rational-bugfix**
> *
>
> So  I got me an older version guile-1.7.91 (as I couldn't find any 1.8, this
> was the nearest to <1.9.0).
>
> ./configure runs fine, but when trying "make", it quits with the following
> error:
>
> *    gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I..    -g -O2 -Wall
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -c -o c-tokenize.o c-tokenize.c; \**
> **fi**
> **<stdout>:1519:16: error: ‘input’ defined but not used
> [-Werror=unused-function]**
> **cc1: all warnings being treated as errors**
> **Makefile:1872: die Regel für Ziel „c-tokenize.o“ scheiterte**
> **make[2]: *** [c-tokenize.o] Fehler 1**
> **make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/christian/Downloads/guile-1.7.91/libguile“
> wird verlassen**
> **Makefile:419: die Regel für Ziel „all-recursive“ scheiterte**
> **make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1**
> **make[1]: Verzeichnis „/home/christian/Downloads/guile-1.7.91“ wird
> verlassen**
> **Makefile:302: die Regel für Ziel „all“ scheiterte**
> **make: *** [all] Fehler 2**
> *
>
> Can anyone help me with that?
>
> Any hints are welcome, even alternate installation methods. I tried apt-get
> and Synaptic-package-manager, but couldn't find any
> version except the actual 2.x
>
> Thanks a lot for help, best regards,
>
> Christian
>

I think guile-1.8.8-tarball can be found at
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.8.tar.gz

Please try configure with this option
./configure --disable-error-on-warning

Cheers,
  Harm