notes about compiling gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

This is known and already fixed in CVS for both 1.6 and the CVS
mainline.

Thanks,

-derek

"Jeremy T. Brown" <jtbrown@utk.edu> writes:

> After quite a bit of work, I finally got GnuCash to compile on a Slackware 8.1 
> system.  A few things I though might be worth mentioning:
> 
> 1) GnuCash doesn't seem to like existing on a system with any Guile newer than 
> 1.4.  Since there is a version 1.5 of Guile out right now, would it be 
> possible to adjust the configure script so that GnuCash links with and/or uses 
> Guile 1.4 instead of 1.5?  Maybe it's already set up that way and just doesn't 
> work on my system since I have Guile 1.4.1.
> 
> 2) In the file lib/srfi/srfi-8.scm, the lines:
> 
>  ((or (string=? "1.3" (version))
>       (string=? "1.3.4" (version))
>       (string=? "1.4" (version)))
> 
> have to be changed to
> 
>  ((or (string=? "1.3" (version))
>       (string=? "1.3.4" (version))
>       (string=? "1.4" (version))
>       (string=? "1.4.1" (version)))
> 
> in order for GnuCash to run under Guile 1.4.1.
> 
> I hope this helps.  GnuCash really is an excellent piece of accounting 
> software, and I hate that it doesn't compile more easily.
> 
> Jeremy Brown
> 
> 
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