Install G-Golf on Fedora 38

Installing GNU G-Golf on Fedora is a little tricky, since you have to do the installation manually. This article explains how to do it.

Packages

Install the following packages.

guile30
autoconf
automake
guile30-devel
glib
gobject-introspection
gobject-introspection-devel
gtk4
gnulib-devel
cairo-devel

Install Guile-Lib

Force the use of Guile 3.0.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/guile3.0 /usr/bin/guile
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/guild3.0 /usr/bin/guild
sudo ln -s /bin/guile-config3.0 /bin/guile-config
sudo ln -s /bin/guile-snarf3.0 /bin/guile-snarf
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/guile-tools3.0 /usr/bin/guile-tools

Download and unzip Guile-Lib.

wget https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/guile-lib/guile-lib-0.2.7.tar.gz
tar -xvf guile-lib-0.2.7.tar.gz

Go into the source repository and build it.

cd guile-lib-0.2.7
GUILE=/usr/bin/guile ./configure --with-guile-site=yes --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Install G-Golf

Download G-Golf.

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/g-golf.git

Go into the source repository and build it.

cd g-golf
./autogen.sh
GUILE=/usr/bin/guile ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-guile-site=yes

Error..

configure: error: Package requirements (guile-lib-1.0 >= 0.2.5) were not met:

Package 'guile-lib-1.0', required by 'virtual:world', not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GUILE_LIB_CFLAGS and GUILE_LIB_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details.

make
sudo make install