1.6 message problem

Bill Carlson wwc@wwcnet.nu
Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:10:28 -0400


Hi,

	Since I saw you were thinking about 1.6.1, I thought
I would send in this little nit.  On an absolutly stock RedHat 7.1
system with xemian 1.4 installed stock, the following message
prints out:

	Obtain slib at: http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html

	If you have slib installed, you may need to create
	a symbolic link named 'slib' from the guile directory
	(usually /usr/share/guile) to the directory where slib
	is installed.

	You may also need to run the following command as root:

	  guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)"

The slib link is there and executing the guile command as root
does not fix the problem.  However, running gnucash as root
fixes the problem (it can be run as non-root after running as
root once).

In the long term, if we need this I think we should just have
gnucash set it all up (perhaps with a "--setup_slib_as_root" 
option), but for the 1.6.1 release, I suggest adding a line to the 
above message like:

	If this still doesn't work, try running gnucash as root once.

We might also like to put in the release notes that it runs
fine on redhat 7.1 with xemian 1.4 installed with the little
slib trick.


		Cheers,

		Bill Carlson
		bill.carlson@att.net