Building Gnucash on OSX from gnucash-on-osx git repo

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 9 April 2010, John Ralls wrote:
> Geert,
> 
> Sorry, that's a recent change to the moduleset (using guile-1.8 instead of
>  guile-16; the latter is a separate module unaffected by the skip).
>  Skip.add('guile") is in jhbuildrc because guile is included in jhbuild
>  bootstrap, isn't needed for most applications, and has in the past given
>  trouble.
> 
> The simple solution is to add 'skip.remove("guile") ' to your
>  .jhbuiildrc-custom; I'll do this in the gnucash-on-osx version later
>  today.
> 
I tested this and indeed my build has finished successfully in the meantime. 
Great !

Glad my feedback is helping debugging the OS X build... ;)

> The reason you got a 64-bit build is because Snow Leopard does that by
>  default. It's explained in more detail in the Gtk-OSX build instructions
>  at https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gtk-osx/wiki/Build.
> 
Oops, I only read that page until jhbuild bootstrap. Now I see there's a 
section on Snow Leopard near the end...

Geert