Error building gnucash 1.8.12

[Rauch Christian]

Christian Stimming schrieb:

> Dear Christian,
>
> Rauch Christian schrieb:
>
>>>   ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> if building with this argument i get the following error:
>> checking if scanf supports %lld conversions... configure: error: 
>> cannot run test program while cross compiling
>
> That's bad. That was the known workaround for SuSE 9.3, 9.2, and 9.1.
>
I know.

>> i get the following output with and without this argument:
>> 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
>>
>> I am building on openSUSE 10.0 Final.
>
>
> As long as you get this output, gnucash won't run. You definitely 
> *have* to get the output as described on 
> http://linuxwiki.de/GnuCash/SourceInstall , which looks like
>
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... no
>
That's really bad.

> If you know a little bit of shell coding, you might want to have a 
> look in the ./configure script at the place where the linker 
> characteristics are decided. I'm very sure that you should be able to 
> fix it with one or two ./configure arguments.
>
Also my knowledge to shell scripting is close to zero ( i prefer php 
;)), i will have a look at the configure
script. Perhaps i can figure out, how to get over this message or even 
make it end successfully and see what
happens.

> Christian

Thanks,
Christian Rauch