Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Federico Beffa be...@ieee.org skribis: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: It may be that, while /usr/local/bin/guile is indeed from the new version, it ends up loading .scm and .go files from the old version. You could check that by running: strace -o log /usr/local/bin/guile

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Neil Jerram
On 2014-09-15 02:16, m...@netris.org wrote: Federico Beffa be...@ieee.org writes: Neil Jerram n...@ossau.homelinux.net writes: This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/guile Regards, Neil With this it works! I notice

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Beffa
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Neil Jerram n...@ossau.homelinux.net wrote: On 2014-09-15 02:16, m...@netris.org wrote: Federico Beffa be...@ieee.org writes: Neil Jerram n...@ossau.homelinux.net writes: This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this: $

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Chris Vine
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:16:39 -0400 m...@netris.org wrote: Federico Beffa be...@ieee.org writes: Neil Jerram n...@ossau.homelinux.net writes: This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/guile Regards, Neil With

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Chris Vine
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:22:27 +0200 Federico Beffa be...@ieee.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Neil Jerram [snip] However, won't it also cause /usr/bin/guile (2.0.5) to load /usr/local/lib/libguile* (2.0.11) ? If not, what is the mechanism that tells /usr/bin/guile (2.0.5) to

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Beffa
Chris Vine ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk writes: On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:16:39 -0400 m...@netris.org wrote: Federico Beffa be...@ieee.org writes: Neil Jerram n...@ossau.homelinux.net writes: This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Mark H Weaver
Neil Jerram n...@ossau.homelinux.net writes: On 2014-09-15 02:16, m...@netris.org wrote: Federico Beffa be...@ieee.org writes: I notice that there is an /etc/ld.so.cache file. Do I somehow need to update it? Yes, you update it by running ldconfig as root. This needs to be done when

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Chris Vine
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:46:07 +0200 Federico Beffa be...@ieee.org wrote: [snip] Your guess is correct: The distribution that I'm using (Debian wheezy) ships 2.0.5 as the newest guile version and I need to keep it to satisfy dependencies of other distribution supplied packages. However, I would

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Beffa
Chris Vine ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk writes: On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:46:07 +0200 Federico Beffa be...@ieee.org wrote: [snip] Your guess is correct: The distribution that I'm using (Debian wheezy) ships 2.0.5 as the newest guile version and I need to keep it to satisfy dependencies of other

Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

2014-09-15 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, As far as I inderstand the Debian package manager mantains a package database. This is the place where it looks for installed packages. So, if I have a newer version of guile which is not installed through the package manager, the package manager will not know about it. even if you