Error building gnucash 1.8.12 on OpenSuSE 10.0

[Christian Stimming]

As it turns out, the described workaround is still correct, even for 
OpenSuSE 10.0. In this particular case, ./configure was invoked from a 
rpm spec file, which specified additionally the arguments ./configure 
--host=i686-suse-linux --build=i686-suse-linux --target=i686-suse-linux. 
This is the target name which is not supported by the shipped configure 
and needs to be overridden by the --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu.

However, when Christian Rauch added --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu, then the 
--build and --host/target were different, so there was an error message 
about "cross compiling". The final workaround for this particular case 
where build, host, target are all given, is to use all three with the 
working target name:

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

For all normal users that do not deal with a rpm spec file, the described

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

is still sufficient.

Christian

Rauch Christian schrieb:
> 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