Building Haunt on Fedora

This is a guide to building (or installing) Haunt from source on Fedora 40.

Packages

Some requirements for Haunt are already packaged in Fedora.

sudo dnf install guile guile-devel autoconf automake texinfo guile-reader guile-reader-devel

Guild

Guild is installed, but its path needs to be rectified for build processes to see it. Use GUILD=$(which guild) with ./configure to remedy this.

Commonmark

guile-commonmark needs to be built from source.

git clone https://github.com/OrangeShark/guile-commonmark
cd guile-commonmark
./bootstrap
GUILD=$(which guild) ./configure
make
sudo make install

Haunt

Now, we can build Haunt.

Download latest Haunt release, extract it, and open it in a terminal.

Set variables in current shell.

GUILD=$(which guild)
GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/

Set variables in future shells.

cat <<END >> "$HOME/.bashrc"
GUILD=$(which guild)
GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/
END

The above does not work. Explicitly declare variables with each command. Build.

GUILD=$(which guild) GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/ ./configure
GUILD=$(which guild) GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/ make
GUILD=$(which guild) GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/ sudo make install

Success!