Hi Federico, That is odd, on my Debian "wheezy" system, the debian packaged guile is a symbolic link /usr/bin/guile to /etc/alternatives/guile, which in turn is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/guile-2.0 . What returns from the command "which guile" on your system ?
The method I have tended to use, which may not be the ideal way, but works for my purposes is to create a dir, /usr/local/guile2 and then ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/guile2 make && make install I like this method, as when further releases come out, for example 2.0.12, I can simply create another dir, for example, /usr/local/guile2012 I have geiser with emacs installed, so in my .emacs I have (setq geiser-guile-binary "/usr/local/guile2/bin/guile") Kind Regards, Vernon Oberholzer On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on Debian 7.6 with guile-2.0.5 installed. I would like to install > a newer version of guile. Therefore I downloaded 2.0.11 and installed > in /usr/local with > > ./configure > make > sudo make install > > Everything appeared to be fine. However, with my surprise, when I > started the newly installed guile with > > $ /usr/local/bin/guile > > I was greeted with > > GNU Guile 2.0.5-deb+1-3 > Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > ... > > which correspond to the version provided by the Debian package. > > Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible to have two guile versions > on the same system? > > Regards, > Fede > >
