Index: basicnet/textweb/w3m.xml
===================================================================
--- basicnet/textweb/w3m.xml	(revision d0b331cf86c484ec336cdddd756a75ce7604d065)
+++ basicnet/textweb/w3m.xml	(revision dcd55b37743ea90133c8a910f3fba48605bf706d)
@@ -67,5 +67,7 @@
     <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
     <xref linkend="imlib"/>,
-    <xref linkend="gdk"/>,
+    <!-- <xref linkend="gdk"/>, -->
+    <ulink url="http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gdk-pixbuf/0.22/">GDK
+    Pixbuf-0.22</ulink>,
     <xref linkend="compface"/>,
     <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/nkf">nkf</ulink>,
Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision d0b331cf86c484ec336cdddd756a75ce7604d065)
+++ general.ent	(revision dcd55b37743ea90133c8a910f3fba48605bf706d)
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "02">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "03">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "08">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2007">
 <!ENTITY version      "svn-&year;&month;&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "August &day;nd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "August &day;rd, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
@@ -199,5 +199,5 @@
 <!ENTITY gcc-version                  "4.1.2">
 <!ENTITY gcc3-version                 "3.3.6">
-<!ENTITY guile-version                "1.6.7">
+<!ENTITY guile-version                "1.8.2">
 <!ENTITY jdk-bin-version              "1.5.0_11">
 <!ENTITY jdk-bin-string               "1_5_0_11">
@@ -545,4 +545,5 @@
 
 <!-- Chapter 33 -->
+<!-- Obsoleting the GNOME-1.4 stuff
 <!ENTITY ORBit-version                "0.5.17">
 <!ENTITY oaf-version                  "0.6.10">
@@ -560,4 +561,5 @@
 <!ENTITY libghttp-version             "1.0.9">
 <!ENTITY gtkhtml1-version             "1.1.7">
+-->
 
 <!-- Part X -->
Index: general/prog/guile.xml
===================================================================
--- general/prog/guile.xml	(revision d0b331cf86c484ec336cdddd756a75ce7604d065)
+++ general/prog/guile.xml	(revision dcd55b37743ea90133c8a910f3fba48605bf706d)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY guile-download-http "http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-&guile-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY guile-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-&guile-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY guile-md5sum        "c2ff2a2231f0cbb2e838dd8701a587c5">
-  <!ENTITY guile-size          "3.0 MB">
-  <!ENTITY guile-buildsize     "39.6 MB (additional 32.2 MB to install all the docs)">
-  <!ENTITY guile-time          "1.1 SBU (includes building all documentation)">
+  <!ENTITY guile-md5sum        "a4b64a992deae0532f8015bcc6c40784">
+  <!ENTITY guile-size          "3.7 MB">
+  <!ENTITY guile-buildsize     "49 MB (additional 40 MB to install all the docs)">
+  <!ENTITY guile-time          "1.2 SBU (includes building all documentation)">
 ]>
 
@@ -56,5 +56,5 @@
     </itemizedlist>
 
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
+    <!-- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
       <listitem>
@@ -66,12 +66,10 @@
         url="&patch-root;/guile-&guile-version;-slib-1.patch"/></para>
       </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
+    </itemizedlist> -->
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Guile Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
-    <!--
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
     <para role="required"><xref linkend="gmp"/></para>
-    -->
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
@@ -89,10 +87,12 @@
     commands:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../guile-&guile-version;-gcc4-1.patch &amp;&amp;
-patch -Np1 -i ../guile-&guile-version;-slib-1.patch &amp;&amp;
-./configure --prefix=/usr --with-threads &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>sed -i -e '20,$ d' \
+       -e 's|slib)|&amp;)\n(load-from-path "slib/guile.init")|' \
+    ice-9/slib.scm
+
+./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>If you have <application>teTeX</application> installed and wish to
+    <para>If you have <xref linkend="tetex"/> installed and wish to
     build alternate formats of the documentation, issue the following
     commands:</para>
@@ -102,4 +102,5 @@
   make -k -C doc/$DIRNAME pdf ps html
 done &amp;&amp;
+
 makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/goops/goops.txt doc/goops/goops.texi &amp;&amp;
 makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/r5rs/r5rs.txt doc/r5rs/r5rs.texi &amp;&amp;
@@ -107,4 +108,5 @@
 makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/tutorial/guile-tut.txt \
     doc/tutorial/guile-tut.texi &amp;&amp;
+
 unset DIRNAME</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -114,9 +116,10 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
+
 find examples -name "Makefile*" -exec rm {} \; &amp;&amp;
 install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version; &amp;&amp;
-cp -v -R examples /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version;</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>If you built the alternate formats of the documentation, install it
+cp -v -R examples   /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version;</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>If you built the alternate formats of the documentation, install them
     using the following commands issued by the
     <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
@@ -141,4 +144,16 @@
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2 role="commands">
+    <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para><command>sed -i -e '20,$ d' -e '...' ice-9/slib.scm</command>:
+    This command is used to modify the <application>Guile</application>
+    <application>SLIB</application> initialization script. There are
+    incompatibilities with newer versions of <application>SLIB</application>
+    and this command modifes the script to use the installed
+    <application>SLIB</application> script.</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
   <sect2 role="content">
     <title>Contents</title>
@@ -151,11 +166,6 @@
       <seglistitem>
         <seg>guile, guile-config, guile-snarf, and guile-tools</seg>
-        <seg>libguile-ltdl.{so,a}, libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1.{so,a},
-        libguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-1.{so,a}, libguile.{so,a},
-        /libguilereadline-v-12.{so,a} and libqthreads.{so,a}</seg>
-        <!-- <seg>libguile.{so,a}, libguilereadline-v-17.{so,a},
-        libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-3.{so,a}, libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3.{so,a},
-        libguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-3.{so,a} and
-        libguile-srfi-srfi-60-v-2.{so,a}</seg>-->
+        <seg>libguile.{so,a}, libguile-srfi-srfi-*.{so,a} and
+        /libguilereadline-v-17.{so,a}</seg>
         <seg>/usr/include/guile, /usr/include/libguile,
         /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version; and /usr/share/guile</seg>
Index: general/prog/pdl.xml
===================================================================
--- general/prog/pdl.xml	(revision d0b331cf86c484ec336cdddd756a75ce7604d065)
+++ general/prog/pdl.xml	(revision dcd55b37743ea90133c8a910f3fba48605bf706d)
@@ -234,5 +234,7 @@
             <ulink url="http://www.boutell.com/gd/">GD</ulink>,
             <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/">SVGAlib</ulink>,
-            <xref linkend="gnome-libs"/>,
+            <!-- <xref linkend="gnome-libs"/>, -->
+            <ulink url="http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-libs/1.4/">GNOME
+            Libraries-1.4</ulink>,
             <xref linkend="jdk"/>,
             <xref linkend="tk"/>,
Index: general/sysutils/mc.xml
===================================================================
--- general/sysutils/mc.xml	(revision d0b331cf86c484ec336cdddd756a75ce7604d065)
+++ general/sysutils/mc.xml	(revision dcd55b37743ea90133c8a910f3fba48605bf706d)
@@ -105,5 +105,7 @@
     <xref linkend="zip"/>,
     <xref linkend="unzip"/>, and
-    <xref linkend="gnome-libs"/></para>
+    <!-- <xref linkend="gnome-libs"/> -->
+    <ulink url="http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-libs/1.4/">GNOME
+    Libraries-1.4</ulink></para>
 
     <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
Index: gnome/gnome-intro.xml
===================================================================
--- gnome/gnome-intro.xml	(revision d0b331cf86c484ec336cdddd756a75ce7604d065)
+++ gnome/gnome-intro.xml	(revision dcd55b37743ea90133c8a910f3fba48605bf706d)
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@
   </warning> -->
 
-  <para>This chapter presents the instructions to install a complete
+  <!-- <para>This chapter presents the instructions to install a complete
   GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; desktop environment; and a limited
   GNOME 1.4 library environment that is sufficient to run GNOME 1.4
@@ -31,5 +31,10 @@
   order defined by the GNOME development team and documented in the <ulink
   url="http://www.gnome.org/start/&gnome-version;/notes/en/rninstallation.html">
-  Release Notes</ulink>.</para>
+  Release Notes</ulink>.</para> -->
+
+  <para>This chapter presents the instructions to install a complete
+  GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; desktop environment. The order of
+  the installed packages follows the build order defined by the GNOME
+  development team and has been thoroughly tested by the BLFS team.</para>
 
   <para>The installation of GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; is a
@@ -71,5 +76,5 @@
   adjustments for your setup.</para>
 
-  <para>If you are building a GNOME 1.4 library environment, you would install
+  <!-- <para>If you are building a GNOME 1.4 library environment, you would install
   only those libraries in the GNOME 1.4 chapter
   <emphasis role='strong'>and</emphasis> any dependencies listed on those
@@ -77,5 +82,5 @@
   simply installed with:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>./configure -prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -93,5 +98,5 @@
   <filename class='directory'>/var</filename>. You should consider using
   the GNOME 1.4 hint located at <ulink url="&hints-root;"/> if you have no
-  interest in GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;.</para>
+  interest in GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;.</para> -->
 
   <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Alternate Installation Methods</bridgehead>
Index: gnome/gnome.xml
===================================================================
--- gnome/gnome.xml	(revision d0b331cf86c484ec336cdddd756a75ce7604d065)
+++ gnome/gnome.xml	(revision dcd55b37743ea90133c8a910f3fba48605bf706d)
@@ -19,5 +19,8 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="core/core.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="add/add.xml"/>
+
+  <!-- Obsoleting the GNOME-1.4 stuff
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="otherlibs/otherlibs.xml"/>
+  -->
 
 </part>
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision d0b331cf86c484ec336cdddd756a75ce7604d065)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision dcd55b37743ea90133c8a910f3fba48605bf706d)
@@ -43,8 +43,23 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>August 3rd, 2007</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[randy] - Updated to Guile-1.8.2. This update effectively
+          breaks the current GnuCash instructions, so a note has been placed
+          on the GnuCash page to use the stable BLFS book to install the
+          package. This note is temporary and will be removed when GnuCash
+          is updated to version 2.x. Since there are no other BLFS packages
+          which depend on the GNOME-1.4 libraries, the entire GNOME-1.4
+          section of the book has been commented out.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>August 2nd, 2007</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[ag] - Added the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator.</para>
+          <para>[ag] - Added the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator package.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
Index: xsoft/office/gnucash.xml
===================================================================
--- xsoft/office/gnucash.xml	(revision d0b331cf86c484ec336cdddd756a75ce7604d065)
+++ xsoft/office/gnucash.xml	(revision dcd55b37743ea90133c8a910f3fba48605bf706d)
@@ -34,5 +34,10 @@
 
     <para><application>GnuCash</application> is a personal finance
-    manager.</para>
+    manager. The BLFS team is in the process of updating GnuCash
+    to version 2.x. This is a major change. Many of the dependency
+    packages for version 2.x are not compatible with the current
+    version. Some of these dependency packages have already been updated
+    which means these instructions are obsolete. Please see the stable
+    BLFS book for instructions to build GnuCash version 1.8.x.</para>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
@@ -71,12 +76,14 @@
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
-    <para role="required"><xref linkend="gtkhtml1"/>,
+    <para role="required"><xref linkend="guile"/>,
+    <xref linkend="slib"/>, and
+    <!-- <xref linkend="gtkhtml1"/>,
     <xref linkend="libghttp"/>,
-    <xref linkend="gwrap"/>, and
+    <xref linkend="gwrap"/>, and -->
     <xref linkend="perl-xml-parser"/></para>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional"><xref linkend="postgresql"/>,
-    <xref linkend="guppi"/>,
+    <!-- <xref linkend="guppi"/>, -->
     <xref linkend="scrollkeeper"/>,
     <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
