Problems running GnuCash 1.9.0 on kubuntu 5.10

[Aaron Larson]

>>>>> "DA" == Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

DA> What do you get from:
DA>   find /usr -name gw-standard\*

alarson at aaron2:/home/tmp/gnucash/gnucash-1.9.0$ find /usr -name gw-standard\*
find: /usr/share/dpsyco: Permission denied
/usr/share/guile/g-wrap/gw-standard-spec.scm
/usr/share/guile/g-wrap/gw-standard.scm
/usr/share/guile/site/g-wrap/gw-standard-spec.scm
alarson at aaron2:/home/tmp/gnucash/gnucash-1.9.0$ 

DA> Also, is the error "gw standard" or "gw-standard"?

rlarson at aaron2:/tmp/gnucash/bin$ ./gnucash
<unnamed port>: In procedure scm-error in expression (scm-error (quote misc-error) #f ...):
<unnamed port>: no code for module (g-wrap gw standard)
rlarson at aaron2:/tmp/gnucash/bin$ 

DA> -derek

DA> Quoting Aaron Larson <Aaron at larsonsonline.net>:

>> I did something close.
>> 
>> make distclean
>> ./configure --prefix=/tmp/gnucash
>> make
>> make install
>> 
>> Same result.  If the --prefix is the likely problem, I'll have to
>> rebuild my test machine with kubuntu 5.10 (its currently running
>> a kubunto drapper release candiate) before I can try again.
>> 
>> 
>>>>>>> "DA" == Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
>> 
DA> Can you try:
DA> make distclean
DA> ./configure
DA> make
DA> make install
>> 
DA> Does that solve the problem?
>> 
DA> -derek
>> 
DA> Quoting Aaron Larson <Aaron at larsonsonline.net>:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I've been a very happy user of gnucash now for several years, and with
>>>> the release of 1.9.0 decided I should try to give back by being a
>>>> tester, but I'm having trouble running my newly built version:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm using Kubuntu 5.10 (pretty fresh install), and installed the 1.9
>>>> source tarball, and using the package manager downloaded all the
>>>> dependencies to build gnucash (this is my first attempt to build
>>>> gnucash).  It went better than "nightmare" with the only interesting
>>>> case being the missing g-wrap-wct.h file as described in
>>>> http://blog.moria.org.uk/computers/code/g-wrap
>>>> 
>>>> I created the file as described in that message, and 1.9 builds:
>>>> 
>>>> ./configure --prefix=/tmp/gnucash/
>>>> make
>>>> make install
>>>> 
>>>> I created a new user and ran gnucash in that user's home directory.
>>>> gnucash popped up the "Cannot find default values" dialog indicating
>>>> that the configuration files were not in their expected location and
>>>> offered to do the setup for me.  I selected "setup" then all default
>>>> options.  1.9 then died with:
>>>> 
>>>> <unnamed port>: In procedure scm-error in expression (scm-error
>>>> (quote misc-error) #f ...):
>>>> <unnamed port>: no code for module (g-wrap gw standard)
>>>> 
>>>> I've found lots of references to this sort of error, but all about
>>>> building, not running.  Note that GnuCash 1.8.10 is also installed on
>>>> this machine.  I can get a fresh machine without gnucash installed and
>>>> rebuild if that is necessary, or provide additional details of machine
>>>> configuration, etc.
>>>> 
>>>> Like I said above, I was hoping to be helpful, so, only respond if
>>>> it seems worth your while.  I can certainly wait for a packaged
>>>> distro.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
DA> --
DA> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 



DA> -- 
DA>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
DA>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
DA>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
DA>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available