Re: problems compiling 2.10.2 and 2.10.3

[Quentin Spencer]

luis jure wrote:
> hello list,
>
> i can't compile either 2.10.2 or 2.10.3 on my gentoo linux (everything
> went fine with 2.8.8). the problem is that configure doesn't detect
> correctly the versions of guile and mftrace. configure stops thus:
>
> ERROR: Please install required programs:  guile-config >= 1.6.7
> (installed: 1.6) mftrace >= 1.1.19 (installed: 1.1) 
>
> but:
>
> address@hidden ~ $ guile-config --version
> guile-config - Guile version 1.6.7
>
> address@hidden ~ $ mftrace -v
> mftrace 1.1.19
>
> i tried to search for differences in the configure scripts between
> 2.8.8 (which works) and 2.10.3, but IANAP, so i couldn't make much of
> it.
>   

I found this problem in my attempt to upgrade the lilypond available 
with Fedora 5 to 2.10.2. It seems there was a change in the configure 
script between 2.10.0 and 2.10.1. It's the same line of code that 
appears in several places, which you can see by diffing the two 
configure scripts. I don't know what the purpose of the change was meant 
to be, but I think it broke detection of version information of 
dependencies.

Quentin