compiling 1.6.0 on Mandrake 8.0

[Robert Graham Merkel]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:52:08 Arnaud Calvo wrote:
> 
> Well, I have understood your last message :
> install name-devel.rpm when you have name.rpm !
> 
> So when I encountered other pb, I installed :
> db1-devel-1.85-4mdk.i586.rpm
> libgal4-devel-0.5-2mdk.i586.rpm
> 
> ... but it would have been too easy :
> checking for main in -lgal... no
> configure: error: gal library not found.  See the README for more info.
> ALTHOUGH I have libgal4-0.5-2mdk and libgal4-devel-0.5-2mdk installed
> :-(((
> 
> Am I so stupid ???
> 
No, you are certainly not stupid.  Compiling GnuCash from source can
be challenging, particularly as  the distributions do not
contain the necessary prerequisites yet.  

For instance, have a look at http://lwn.net this week.  The head 
writer there can't get it to work, and he's been writing about 
Linux for years.


As to your specific difficulty, 
I'm not absolutely sure here, but I think that your problem is that
the version of gal you have is probably too old, you need
a newer one.

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