Error building gnucash 1.8.12 on OpenSuSE 10.0

[Christian Stimming]

Rauch Christian schrieb:
>> 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. 
>>
>>  (...)
>> For all normal users that do not deal with a rpm spec file, the described
>>
>>   ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> is still sufficient.
> 
> But still one question remains just for my understanding.
> Why is the argument --build sufficient for 1.8.11, but 1.8.12 needs all 
> three on the same building system
> without any changes?

Read my answer ;-) .  I didn't say that the difference is between 1.8.11 
and 1.8.12, but instead the difference is between building/configuring 
from your rpm spec file and building by manual ./configure. The former 
sets all three arguments wrongly which have then to be overridden, 
whereas the latter is already set up correctly by specifying the --build 
argument.

Christian