Another Build failure of gnucash-1.2.6-1.src.rpm

[Dave Peticolas]

On 14 Aug 2001 23:00:33 +0000, Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote:
> I'm running on Mandrake 7.0, with numerous updates specifically for
> gnucash.  Guppi and it's dependencies were a real bitch.  I have
> glibc-2.1.3, and many prebuilt binaries require glibc-2.2, so I have
> built many of the dependencies from source rpms.  I finally managed to
> build an old version of gnucash 1.5.3.  It would not install correctly,
> but I decided not to bother figuring out why, but try to build the
> latest, 1.6.2.  Note: I've been trying to build 1.5.3 since January,
> without success, so, getting this far was quite satisfying.  I've been
> able to build 1.5.3 without Guppi, all along.
> 
> trying to build gnucash 1.6.2
> rpm -bb gnucash-1.6.spec >& gnucash.build.txt
> ...
> Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.37473
> + umask 022
> + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
> + cd gnucash-1.6.2
> + DOCDIR=/var/tmp/gnucash-1.6.2/usr/share/doc/gnucash-1.6.2
> + export DOCDIR
> + rm -rf /var/tmp/gnucash-1.6.2/usr/share/doc/gnucash-1.6.2
> + /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/gnucash-1.6.2/usr/share/doc/gnucash-1.6.2
> + cp -pr AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog ChangeLog.1 HACKING NEWS README
> README.patches /var/tmp/gnucash-1.6.2/usr/share/doc/gnucash-1.6.2
> + cp -pr doc/README.german doc/README.francais doc/guile-hackers.txt
> /var/tmp/gnucash-1.6.2/usr/share/doc/gnucash-1.6.2
> + exit 0
> Requires: gnome-libs >= 1.0.40
> 
> 
> I have installed:
> rpm -q gnome-libs
> gnome-libs-1.2.11-0mdk_helix_1
> rpm -q gnome-libs-devel
> gnome-libs-devel-1.2.11-0mdk_helix_1
> 
> That looks like a later version to me!

I'm not sure the Requires: line is an error message, it may
just be telling you that the rpm being built requires
gnome-libs >= 1.0.40. Are you sure the rpm isn't getting built?

You can remove the Requires line from the
specfile and try that, too.

dave