gnucash 1.6.8

[Tim Wunder]

On 10/28/2002 10:40 AM, someone claiming to be Terry Boldt wrote:
> Due to  an incipient HDD failure I had to change from RH 7.3 to RH 8.0 very 
> recently. Downloaded version 1.6.8, uncompressed, untarred and executed 
> './configure'. Ended with the following error message:
> 
> checking for gtk_html_new in -lgtkhtml... yes
> Unknown library `ghttp'
> Unknown library `ghttp'
> checking for ghttp_request_new in -lghttp... no
> configure: error: Cannot find ghttp. See the README and config.log for more 
> info.
> 
> 
> Checked both the README and config.log for more information - not helpful. I 
> Think I know what 'ghttp' refers to, but thought I should probably ask before 
> executing a wild goose chase. 
> 
> Also, if anybody knows of opther packages I should download before continuing, 
> please mention them.
> 
> 

1.6.8 should compile out of the box under RedHat 8.0. You probly just need some -devel packages, at a minimum the libghttp-devel-1.0.9-5 pacakge.

IIRC, RH 8 *comes* with 1.6.something (1.6.6 I think...).

HTH, 
Tim