Re: guile for lilypond on Red Hat 9

[Carter Brey]

> >
> i was using the GUI rpm installer, and the window would simply 
> dissappear before running to completion, without the final message 
> window which usually tells you either that the package has installed 
> successfully or that some dependencies have not been met, etc.
>
> since my last message, i have finally been successful in getting 
> lilypond 1.8.0-1 running on RedHat 9, as follows:
> 1. installed guile-1.6.4-7.1.i386.rpm using command-line rpm (no 
> problems there)
> 2. installed lilypond-1.8.0-1.i386.rpm using command-line rpm (no 
> problems)
> 3. installed lilypond-documentation-1.8.0-1.i386.rpm using 
> command-line rpm (no problems)
> 4. when running ly2dvi, got dynamic link error message (can't find 
> libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1.so)
> 5. installed guile-devel-1.6.4-7.1.i386.rpm to provide the .so file
> 6. ly2dvi runs fine
>
> it looks like lilypond is dynamically linked and requires guile-devel, 
> but that dependency is not required by the lilypond rpm. perhaps that 
> needs to be fixed. is this a correct diagnosis, or is something else 
> going on here?
>
> anyway, i am DELIGHTED to finally have it running!
>
> best,
> -p

What about other applications that depend on the out-of-the-box guile 
that Red Hat 9 provides? I'm screwed if I can't use Gnucash, which I use 
for all my tax reporting. Will it run linked to guile-1.6.4-7.1?

Thanks,
Carter

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