Re: guile 1.6 problem building debian package of 1.7.16

[Paul Scott]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Paul Scott <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> >
> > > Assuming guile-config is installed with another name (guile-config1.6
> > > or so, you never know), you can edit configure to look for that.
> > >      
> > As above it doesn't seem to ahve another name.
> >
> > Installing the 1.4 version I get:
>
> Sorry, I must have been unclear.  LilyPond 1.7 does not build with
> guile < 1.6, but the fact that Debian ships multiple guile versions
> is indeed part of the problem.  See bugs #183977 and #188322.
>
> The guile-config in your path must be the 1.6 version.
I believe you were clear enough.  I did the research below before I read 
the bug reports you indicated.  I have now read those bug reports and 
begin to understand the problem.  guile-1.6-dev is supposed to contain 
guile-config 1.6 but does not.  I now (again after trying libguile-dev) 
have guile-1.6-dev installed and get:

----
...
config.status: creating config.h

ERROR: Please install required programs:  echo no guile-config 1.6 
(installed: )

See INSTALL.txt for more information on how to build LilyPond
Remove config.cache before rerunning ./configure
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1
debuild: fatal error at line 456:
dpkg-buildpackage failed!
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AFAICT there is no Debian package containing guile-config 1.6   I used 
the Debian package search for guile-config and only find: libguile-dev.  
Searching for all versions of libguile-dev I get:

Release         Package (size)
stable 	* libguile-dev 1:1.4-24 
<http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/libguile-dev.html>*   (395.1k)
        Development headers and static library for libguile.
testing 	* libguile-dev 1:1.4-24 
<http://packages.debian.org/testing/libdevel/libguile-dev.html>*   (395.1k)
        Development headers and static library for libguile.
unstable 	* libguile-dev 1:1.4-24 
<http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/libguile-dev.html>*   
(395.1k)
        Development headers and static library for libguile.



I am a developer but am somewhat new to LInux development.  I have this 
symlink.
joy:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/guile-config
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           25 Apr  4 11:45 
/etc/alternatives/guile-config -> /usr/bin/guile-1.6-config

What do I do next?

Thanks,

Paul