Re: gEDA: Fedora Core 2 issue

[Karel Kulhavý <clock@twibright.com>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:45:21AM -0400, Bill Cox wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> By default, it seems that Fedora Core 2 comes with the most recent
> version of Guile (1.6.4), but without guile-config.

Is it possible to say rpm <something> guile-config and have guile-config
installed this way?

I am not using redhat, but Linux From Scratch, so I don't know the options
of rpm by heart.

Cl<
> 
> What is the recommended fix?  I could hack geda's confugure.ac scripts,
> or I could install over the red-hat pre-installed stuff in /usr, or I
> could make a local installation in /usr/local.  I'm also considering
> just compiling guile into a local directory, then copying guile-config
> to /usr/bin.
> 
> I'm concerned that having an installation in both /usr and /usr/local of
> guile 1.6.4 might confuse things, otherwise that would be my first
> choice.  But if I install in /usr, it messes up the Red-Hat package
> manager tracking stuff, since I'm over-writing installed files.
> 
> Bill
> 
>