gnucash compiltation trouble
upro
I'm trying to compile gnucash 1.8.9 on my slack 9.1 system. I've
run into problems and am stuck.
The gnucash configure script always exists with error
checking for main in -lgal... no
configure: error: gal library not found. See the README and config.log
for more info.
The README directs me to
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gal/, which is offline,
not existing or deleted. I got, compiled and installed
gal-2.3.0.tar.bz2, whihc I found on a mirror -- still the same error:
gal library not found.
Then I found out that there exists another gal package, and I got,
compiled and installed gal-0.24.orig.tar.gz from a debian site and
when compiling the configure script exists with the error:
checking for Glade libraries >= 0.13... configure: error: Did not find
libGlade installed
Funny enough, the gnucash configure scipt - just before it
exists with the gal library error it prints to stdout:
checking for libglade-config... /usr/local/bin/libglade-config
checking for libglade... yes
So it should be there, isn't it?
this is kind of a vicious circle to me. i don't find out. HELP!!!
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Michael
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upro
> Hi there!
>
>
> I'm trying to compile gnucash 1.8.9 on my slack 9.1 system. I've
> run into problems and am stuck.
>
> The gnucash configure script always exists with error
>
> checking for main in -lgal... no
> configure: error: gal library not found. See the README and config.log
> for more info.
>
> The README directs me to
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gal/, which is offline,
> not existing or deleted. I got, compiled and installed
> gal-2.3.0.tar.bz2, whihc I found on a mirror -- still the same error:
> gal library not found.
>
> Then I found out that there exists another gal package, and I got,
> compiled and installed gal-0.24.orig.tar.gz from a debian site and
> when compiling the configure script exists with the error:
>
> checking for Glade libraries >= 0.13... configure: error: Did not find
> libGlade installed
>
> Funny enough, the gnucash configure scipt - just before it
> exists with the gal library error it prints to stdout:
>
> checking for libglade-config... /usr/local/bin/libglade-config
> checking for libglade... yes
>
> So it should be there, isn't it?
Actually - it _is_ there! locate libglade puts out a plain big bunch
of /usr/include/, /usr/local/include/, /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib
locations with elemts of libglade...
Matt
I don't have a specific answer for you...Sorry...But maybe a few
suggestions.
1st, your problems with Glade sound a bit like what was just recently
discussed in the ldconfig thread in this NG. Perhaps the Glade
libraries are there, but you need to refresh the ldconfig/ld.so.cache ?
2nd, Gnucash is notorious for being hard to build. They even admit as
much on their website :
http://www.gnucash.org/en/required.phtml
I tried a few times with Slack 9.1, and I got it to go once...So it's
not impossible, just not as easy as other packages.
3rd, rather than building from scratch, maybe try a pre-compiled
version. IIRC, there is one available on linuxpackages.net. Maybe not
the most recent version, but probably reasonably up to date.
Anyway, good luck.
--
- Matt -
upro
Ohh, well, thanks for replying! Of course I read their comment on how
hard it is to build... I wanted to try it anyway!
I run ldconfig eacht time I inetalled new libraries, I even
explicitely added their path to /etc/ld.so.conf, if it was not named
there.
That didn't help...
I discovered a Slack package of gnucash 1.8.9 (which is _fairly_ new,
actually the newest...) on linuxpackages.net, though.
Doesn't start:
ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in ("/usr/share/guile"
"/usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules" "/usr/share/gnucash/scm" ""
"/usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.6" "/usr/share/guile" ".")
Installed new slib from linuxpackages.net, and a nw g-wrap, gdk-pixbuf
and more - all from
http://webpages.charter.net/jay_scott_raymond/linux/slackages/slack91.html,
and, well, after all, it was the new version of gdk-pixbuf thta was
missing and causing all the problems!!!
Thanks for pointing me there!
Michael
Reed Loefgren
You could always try googling for something like, oh, I don't know.
Maybe 'gnucash on slackware'...
Mark Johnson
My major difficulty is glib. Slackware 10 does not seem to provide the
correct version. I've grabbed the correct version from the Slackware
8.1 source, but it's a real pain to get it to compile too.
Has anyone successfully gotten this to work on Slackware 10?
Can anyone tell me exactly what is in gnome-libs? OR if the Slackware
10 version of gnome-libs should still work? (In which case, I should be
messing with the 'configure' of gnucash and not with that of gnome-libs.)
For example, my research indicated that gnome 2 eliminated some user
interface widgets included in earlier versions, and which gnucash used.
Therefore, gnucash won't work with gnome 2, yet. Are these widgets
part of what's in gnome-libs? If not, are they in glib? (IF so I am
wasting my time trying to compile gnome-libs against the Slackware 10
version of glib.) I am pretty sure the gnome-libs package does produce
libglib because you must have a libglib to link against to make gnome-libs.
I found the following directions for Slackware 9.1:
http://rjmarq.org/gnucash.html
Perhaps, they will help you.
Mark