Re: guppi problem

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Thomas Shannon wrote:

->As a biochemist, I have an intense interest in this program.  And yet I
->have never been able to get it to compile.  I have been trying since the
->first release.  Nevertheless, I got so close this time I thought I would
->post and see if someone could help.
->
->The primary failure this time seems to be related to the absence of
->something called "guile-snarf" files.  These apparently have the file
->extension ".x" If they are supposed to be with the source files, I can't
->find them.
->
->Anybody know what's going on?
->
->I have a standard Red Hat install with the upgrades from
->ftp.inconnect.com.  Goose and gnome-print compiled and installed without
->a problem.
->
->Tom

Have you got guile installed? Sometimes referred to as libguile.

Output of rpm -qif /usr/bin/guile-snarf follows:
-----
Name: guile                        Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version: 1.2                               Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release: 6                             Build Date: Fri Sep 11
08:26:52 1998
Install date: Fri Apr  9 21:52:06 1999      Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group: Development/Languages         Source RPM:
guile-1.2-6.src.rpm
Size: 650146                           License: GPL
Packager: Red Hat Software <bugs@redhat.com>
Summary: GNU Extension language
Description:
Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C.  Guile
provides a machine independent execution platform that can be linked in as
a library when building extensible programs.
-----

I'm running rh6. AFAIK, installing guile will allow you to complete the
install.

Tom.

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