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Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I got the release notice for gEDA 1.10.1 but I am having concerns
> about the guile 2.2.4 dependency. My up-to-date Slackware 14.2 system
> has guile 2.0.11, which runs gEDA 1.10.0 fine. I can update guile to
> 2.2.7 myself, but I am concerned that doing so may break other
> programs on my Slackware system. Guile 2.0.11 is a part of the
> Slackware distro, not an add-on by me, so other dependent programs
> most likely have been compiled with it. The "current" Slackware distro
> has guile 3.x, but it has not been officially released yet and as
> such, for security and stability reasons, I don't want to update my
> Slackware 14.2 until the next release is official.
>
> 1.10.1 has fixed a few bugs I am interested to use, but if it can't be
> built with guile 2.0.11, then that is not an option for me.
>
> What are my options?
>
> Is there a workaround or patch I could apply to 1.10.1 to make it
> build with guile 2.0.11?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Girvin
>
>
>
I also have slackware 14.2 (64-bit, somewhat upgraded, so not clean
14.2) and am in the process of working through all of this.

1. You cannot replace the guile 2.0 package with 2.2 as it will break
several utilities most notably make. The guile-3.0.x package will not
work, it is not backwards compatible with the 2.2 series. I know because
I tried it.
2. I solved this by installing guile 2.2 alongside 2.0 and that seems to
be working fine.
3. It is not just guile; glib2, gtk+, gdk-pixbuf, cairo, and pango also
all have to be upgraded. Some of which, pango in particular, has several
other dependencies.
4. I almost turned my machine into a brick last night trying to just use
the new slackware packages, so don't unless you are good at admin work.
5. So far I have identified glib2 and probably pango as requiring a
rebuild to upgrade. Should know more tonight.

Glenn

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