can anyone build guile-1.8.7 on f12?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > >  long story short:  can anyone running f12 download the guile-1.8.7
> > > tarball from here:
> > >
> > >  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.7.tar.gz
> > >
> > > and just do the basic:
> > >
> > >  $ ./configure
> > >  $ make
> > >
> > > and see if it builds?  i'm still running a frankenstein version of
> > > rawhide-updated f11 and it's failing for me, and i won't have time to
> > > do the f12 fresh install until this weekend.  i just want to know if
> > > that's going to solve the problem.  a simple yes or no is all i'm
> > > after.
> > >
> > > rday
> > >
> > > p.s.  you'll need to install libtool-ltdl-devel for that build.
> > >
> >
> > F-12 already has a guile-1.8.7 rpm package.
> >
> > yum install guile
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=330
>
>   i know, but that's not the issue.  longer story -- i'm trying to
> build it as part of a larger openembedded image, and the native build
> of that package keeps failing.  as a test, i just tried what i was
> suggesting -- grab the tarball, download it and configure and make, to
> use as a benchmark for a native build.  that *also* failed on this
> system, which allows me to at least suspect it's not an OE issue, it's
> a guile build issue related to fedora, or at least related to this
> dog's breakfast version of fedora i have running now.
>
>   i just want to know if a stock f12 system can build that package
> from tarball.

  in fact, downloading the source rpm for guile-1.8.7 and using
"rpmbuild" to try to build the binary also fails with the same error.
i think it's BZ time.

rday
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