Errors compiling Gnucash for Mac OSX

[Neil Williams]

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 8:51, Robyn Phillips wrote:
> > sudo fink selfupdate
> > sudo fink install gnucash
> > (wait . . . . )
> >
> > /sw/bin/gnucash
>
> The one thing I am confused about, is that that the readme files for
> Gnucash gave me the impression I had to compile gnucash. But I haven't done
> this (due to some errors). Have I misunderstood something?

Possibly. fink compiles the software as it goes - that's what the long wait is 
all about.

apt-get tries to install ready-compiled binaries
fink gets the source code, compiles it into a .deb binary and then installs 
those.

Whether those .deb files will work on any other system is probably unlikely - 
otherwise fink would do it themselves.

Fink - compile it for me
Apt - binary only



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