Build problems

[Phil Longstaff]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 13:03, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at newearth.org> writes:
> 
> > I downloaded CVS source (1.8.10?) on my suse 9.1 system.  I had the
> > following build problems:
> 
> Nope, you downloaded CVS HEAD which is more like the 1.10
> pre-pre-pre-alpha tree.  You probably should have downloaded the 1.8
> branch if you want a stable source tree and the 1.8.10 precursor.
> 
> [snip]
> > + lots more errors like that
> >
> > I "solved" both of those by modifying the Makefiles to ignore those
> > directories.  Gnucash continued to build, but when I try to run it, I
> > get:
> 
> Well, duh!  You told it to ignore the engine.  It's not like you
> can just ignore major pieces of gnucash and expect it to work!
> 

Clarification: I modified the Makefiles to remove the test directories
from the SUBDIRS list, not the engine directory.

> > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> > ERROR: file: "libgw-gnc", message: "/opt/gnucash/lib/libgw-gnc.a:
> > invalid ELF header"
> >
> > However, 
> >
> > readelf /opt/gnucash/lib/libgw-gnc.a
> >
> > seems to look OK.
> >
> > Any ideas where to look?
> 
> Uhh, if you have a .a that's bad.  You need a .so (shared object).
> 

hmmmm....  OK.  Thanks.

Phil