build problems

[Phillip J Shelton]

It will help if you could let us know which version of gnucash you are trying to compile as the dependices
change with each version.

Carl Hartshorn wrote:

> I started to install gnucash by getting the tarball--there was no rpm for the latest guncash for my suse
> 6.4 system. After reading the readme, I upgraded gnome from the ximian site. However, I didnt realize that
> one also needs the develpment rpms as well. But those were easily dealt with. I was getting much closer
> after I got Guppi installed. Ximian did not have an rpm for this and the latest on sourceforge was 4 rev's
> ago. Fortunately, Jon Trowbridge responded immediately and I got his lastest and installed it with no
> problems. Which brings me to today..
> The last thing that happened is g-wrap. I got the rpm from the gnucash team for suse but it doesn't seem
> to like the gnome 1.4 version of guile:
>
> rpm -Uvh g-wrap-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libguile.so.6 is needed by g-wrap-0.9.1-1
>         libqthreads.so.0 is needed by g-wrap-0.9.1-1
>         /usr/bin/guile is needed by g-wrap-0.9.1-
>
> Since 'guile' is mainly installed on /opt/gnome, I wonder if this rpm is really looking for that guile or
> some other.
> 1.1.11
> So, not wanting to tear into this one just yet, I got the source tar ball for g-wrap--the latest,1.1.11,
> and started from there. Doing ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome seemed to go fine, but the make says:
>
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/new1/tuck/g-wrap-1.1.11/g-wrapped'
> guile -c \
>           "(set! %load-path (cons \"/new1/tuck/g-wrap-1.1.11/g-wrapped/..\" %load-path))""(use-modules
> (g-wrap)) \
>                         (use-modules (g-wrapped gw-runtime-spec)) \
>                         (gw:generate-module \"gw-runtime\")"
> ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in  ("/new1/tuck/g-wrap-1.1.11/g-wrapped/.."
> "/opt/gnome/share/guile/site" "/opt/gnome/share/guile/1.4" "/opt/gnome/share/guile" ".")
> make[2]: *** [gw-runtime.c] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/new1/tuck/g-wrap-1.1.11/g-wrapped'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/new1/tuck/g-wrap-1.1.11'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>
> I looked in /opt/gnome/share/guile/1.4/ and down. There is a 'slib.scm' but there is no
> 'slib/require.scm'.
>
> So if somebody has an idea of how to move forward, I would appreciate some help.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tuck
>
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