Error building gnucash 1.8.12

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Christian,

I guess you are building on a SuSE system? Then, according to 
http://linuxwiki.de/GnuCash/SourceInstall, you need to specify the 
following argument at ./configure:

   ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu

This is a known problem with SuSE and won't be fixed in the 
gnucash-1.8.x series.

The clear indication that this has been the error is that when running 
./configure, you get the following output:

checking dynamic linker characteristics... unknown
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes

-- and static libraries are the WRONG THING (TM) for gnucash.

Christian

Rauch Christian schrieb:
> I'm trying to build gnucash 1.8.12 as rpm.
> 
> it compiles fine, but on starting gnucash, it exits with the error
> 
> ERROR: In procedure dynamic link:
> ERROR: file: "libgw-gnc", message: "/usr/lib/libgw-gnc.a: invalid ELF 
> header"