Help in compiling 1.8.X on Dapper

[Derek Atkins]

This sounds a lot like:

  https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2004-April/009914.html

-derek

Bengt Thuree <bengt at thuree.com> writes:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Am wondering if anyone out there knows how to build/compile gnucash
> 1.8.X (where X is <= 9), on a Ubuntu/Dapper system .
>
> I did the following
>
> apt-get build-dep gnucash
> autogen.sh  --disable-error-on-warning --prefix /opt/unstable/1.8.9
> --enable-opt-style-install
> make
> sudo make install
> /opt/unstable/1.8.9/bin/gnucash
> --> /usr/bin/guile: symbol lookup
> error: /opt/unstable/1.8.9//lib/gnucash/libgw-business-core.so.0:
> undefined symbol: gncOwnerCreate
> And GnuCash crashes after this, this is on the loading of gnucash.
>
>
> I get this for 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.9, but 1.8.10 works fine.
>
> I googled a bit, and found the following:
> http://jon.limedaley.com/plog/rss.php?blogId=1&categoryId=4
>> There are lots of people who had a similar problem a couple years ago, and the solution was to downgrade libltdl3, so I downgraded it to stable, but still got the same error.<br/>
>> I also downgraded libgtkhtml, since that is probably the main problem, but that didn't help anything either.<br/>
>> oh, duh. (as grammy would say)<br/>
>> While I wasn't looking, the debian version has increased to 1.8.10, which is newer than what I am running, so whatever reason I had for using gnucash source rather than the Debian package is gone.<br/>
>> Upgraded to 1.8.10, and I am a happy camper
>
> 1.8.10 worked fine directly from subversion.
>
> I also tried to download/compile 1.8.9 (or 5) on a old Warty system from 2004-11, but same problem.
>
> If anyone has any hints/tips, I would be very happy camper.
>
> /Bengt
>
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