Bric <b...@flight.us> writes: > On January 24, 2020 at 4:50 PM David Kastrup < d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Bric < b...@flight.us> writes: > > i am building lilypond-2.19.83 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS > > had to build guile-1.8.8, after which lilypond ./configure was happy, and > finished > (posted > about my guile struggles a few days ago) > > -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lguile -lltdl -lgmp -lcrypt -lm -lltdl > > how can i make lilypond find the shared object? > > I use > > ./configure GUILE=/usr/bin/guile > GUILE_CONFIG=/usr/local/tmp/guile-1.8/bin/guile-config > > and that's basically all. GUILE can be a 2.x Guile version (it is used > for scripting), but GUILE_CONFIG needs to be the 1.8 build. > > I tried your method and got the same error. Can't find libguile.so.17
Then likely building and installing guile did not complete. -- David Kastrup