failing configure..

[Neil Williams]

On Sunday 22 January 2006 1:55 pm, Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
> > 1.9.6-3 IS in Ubuntu Universe:
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/interpreters/g-wrap
> >
> > Upgrade and this will fix the problem.
>
> The only problem here is that the g-wrap package depends on the g-wrap
> runtime wich again dep on libffi, wich again dep on gcc base wich
> ...... again..... And changing the gcc package breaks 800 other
> packages...

Sounds like your Ubuntu installation is too old - a dist-upgrade sounds 
likely.

What version of Ubuntu are you running? 

I'm not completely familiar with Ubuntu versions but if you are on the 
equivalent of Debian stable you would have to upgrade. AFAICT, you need to be 
running Dapper - whichever version of Ubuntu that is.

> I wonder if i shall just try an dust-upgrade to Dapper Drake or
> whatever it is called (Ubuntu 6.04)

To use 1.9.6-3 it looks like you do need to be running Dapper. 

Breezy (which I think is Ubuntu 5.10) is insufficient.

Isn't Dapper a bit like Debian unstable - a rolling distribution that's always 
the latest packages? Sounds like Breezy is a fixed point in the Dapper 
process which means it won't upgrade easily beyond that point without 
becoming Dapper in all but name.

Although gnucash has a target platform much older than Breezy, unfortunately 
the g-wrap dependency in Breezy is broken as far as gnucash is concerned (and 
the previous version won't work with gcc4). The fix was only made AFTER 
Breezy was created, hence your problem. Move to Dapper.

-- 

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