From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:13:16 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: document new GUILE reqs
X-Git-Tag: release/2.11.5-1~33^2~7
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d46cb09e6b94e4e19fbe45df2010221a74846c59;p=lilypond.git

document new GUILE reqs
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diff --git a/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.texi b/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.texi
index c663700030..52d8d8cf76 100644
--- a/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.texi
+++ b/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.texi
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ You will need to install some additional packages to get mftrace to
 work.
 
 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE}
-(version 1.6.7 or newer).  If you are installing binary packages, you
+(version 1.8.2 or newer).  If you are installing binary packages, you
 may need to install guile-devel or guile-dev or libguile-dev too.
 
 @item @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/,Texinfo} (version 4.8 or newer).
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ software
 @item @uref{http://www.freetype.org/,FontConfig} (version 2.2).
 @item @uref{http://www.pango.org/,Pango} (version 1.12 or newer).
 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE}
-(version 1.8.0 or newer).
+(version 1.8.2 or newer), or patch 1.8.x with
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/patches/guile-1.8-rational.patch}.
 @item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.4 or newer).
 @item @uref{http://www.ghostscript.com,Ghostscript} (version 8.15 or
 newer. 8.50 recommended)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 16cb3c3f21..4d91c76193 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -107,7 +107,20 @@ STEPMAKE_GETTEXT
 STEPMAKE_MSGFMT(REQUIRED)
 STEPMAKE_TEXMF(REQUIRED)
 STEPMAKE_TEXMF_DIRS
-STEPMAKE_GUILE_DEVEL(REQUIRED, 1.6.7)
+
+## should check for 1.8.2 ?  
+STEPMAKE_GUILE_DEVEL(REQUIRED, 1.8.0)
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(GUILE rational bugfix)
+AC_TRY_CPP(
+#include <libguile.h>
+#ifdef SCM_FRACTION_REDUCED_BIT
+#error 
+#endif
+,
+AC_MSG_RESULT(ok),
+REQUIRED="$REQUIRED GUILE-with-rational-bugfix"
+AC_MSG_RESULT(Must have patched GUILE rational support. See INSTALL.txt))
+
 STEPMAKE_MAKEINFO(REQUIRED, 4.8)
 STEPMAKE_PYTHON_DEVEL(REQUIRED)