Gnucash upgrade not working

[Colin Law]

On 15 May 2014 15:02, Kevin Rutherford <kevin at rutherford-software.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Kevin Rutherford
> <kevin at rutherford-software.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I know that several have had problems with the version from getdeb
>>> intermittently hanging on exit on 14.04.  It is not difficult to build
>>> from source.  If you try this and anything in the wiki on building for
>>> 14.04 is not clear then come back and we will assist and I will update
>>> the wiki accordingly.
>>
>> I tried the version from getdeb and it hangs on exit every time (on
>> Ubuntu 14.04).
>> So I've tried to build it myself, starting with the 2.6.3 tarball from girhub.
>
> In fact the config.log contains quite a few error messages. I have no
> idea whether any of these are to be expected, so I've attached it in
> full in case it helps.

That does not look like the terminal o/p I get when I run configure.
It has lots more information.  How did you get it as a file?

What do you see if you run, in a terminal
apt-cache policy gcc

Colin