Re: Guile 1.8.2 / SLIB 3a4 incompatibility

[Bryce L Nordgren]

Ludovic,

Thanks for the help.  I edited ice-9/slib.scm as you specified, and now I'm getting behavior which might be right and might not be: error on the first try and success on the second:

# guile
guile>  (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
ERROR: Unbound variable: system
ABORT: (unbound-variable)
guile>  (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
guile>

Unfortunately, this is apparently not good enough for GnuCash, as the following ./configure snippet fails:

if ${GUILE} -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'printf)" > /dev/null 2>&1  
then                                                                            
  { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5                                      
echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6; }                                                      
else                                                                            
  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error:                                              
                                                                                
   Cannot find SLIB.  Are you sure you have it installed?                       
   See 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347922                         
                                                                                
" >&5                                                                           

Since the test in the configure script seems reasonable, and the fail-first-time behavior was demonstrated on the command line, it would seem appropriate to further pursue the solution here...  Any ideas why the same thing both succeeds and fails?