Re: 1.8.6 build error

[Neil Jerram]

2008/12/9 Ben Isajiw <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> I apologize if this is wrong email list for my question.  Please provide 
> correct list.

This is the correct list.

> I try to build guile 1.8.6 as requirement for autogen as requirement for 
> Anjuta.  First error was cannot find libltdl.so.7.  I don't know how to 
> include my library directory in build (/usr/local/lib) so I copy libltdl.* to 
> /usr/lib.  Then I can get past first error but get strange error as shown:
>
> In file included from ../libguile/_scm.h:53,
>                 from alist.c:24:
> ../libguile/numbers.h:362:2: error: #error sizeof(char) is not 1.
> ../libguile/numbers.h:383:2: error: #error sizeof(short) is not 1, 2, or 4.

I think these are consequences of libltdl not being found at
configuration time.  (This prevents some of the test programs from
running.)  The easiest solution would be for you to fully install
libltdl (including -dev packages, if using a distro like Debian where
those are split off) in /usr, and then try the build again.  Is that
feasible?

Regards,
        Neil