Building RPM of gnucash-1.6.2-1.src.rpm fails

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
14 Aug 2001 15:04:01 -0700


On 14 Aug 2001 12:45:16 +0200, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When building an RPM using rpm --rebuild gnucash-1.6.2-1.src.rpm on
> Linux/PPC the configure script bombs out like so:
> 
> checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
> checking for g-wrap-config... /usr/local/bin/g-wrap-config
> checking for g-wrap - version >= 1.1.5... no
> configure: warning: guile check failed
> configure: error: 
> 
>   g-wrap does not appear to be installed correctly, or is not new
>   enough.  Right now gnucash requires at least version 1.1.5 to build.
>   If you need to install g-wrap, you can find it at
>   ftp://ftp.gnucash.org/pub/g-wrap.
> 
> g-wrap is installed on the machine already like so:
> 
> [root@jessica minfrin]# rpm -q -a | grep g-wrap
> g-wrap-1.1.10-ximian.1
> g-wrap-devel-1.1.10-ximian.1
> 
> Could the problem be lame version number detection? 1.1.10 is greater
> than 1.1.5 in version number, but it's less than when compared by ascii.

I doubt that is the problem. Have you tried looking at config.log to
see the error?

dave