Bug 10306 – guile-1.4.1 breaks GNUcash

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matthew Daubenspeck 2002-11-05 18:09:08 UTC]

I upgraded guile from 1.4-r3 to 1.4.1 and can no longer run GNUCash. Here is the
error:

$ gnucash
gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libguile.so.9: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-11-05 18:27:18 UTC]

what happens when you remerge gnucash?

[Comment 2 Matthew Daubenspeck 2002-11-05 19:19:52 UTC]

Same result.

[Comment 3 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2002-11-05 22:33:48 UTC]

This is a very nasty bug indeed. This seems to be what's going on:

- Guile 1.4 installs libguile.so.9, Guile 1.4.1 -> libguile.so.10
- GnuCash uses g-wrap in order to call functions from the guile library.
- Latest stable release of g-wrap is 1.2.1, which doesn't know about
libguile.so.10. More recent versions of this package are masked because
apparently they break GnuCash (!).

So, it all comes down to: GnuCash needs a version of Guile <1.4.1 (e.g. 1.4).

Corrections to this issue have been committed to the Portage tree.

(btw, guile 1.4.1 was recently unmasked and its SLOT variable was changed)

Thanks