GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try

[Thomas Arildsen]

Christian Stimming skrev:
>> After this, the install ran fine for quite a while. However, now I run into
>> this when it reaches Autotools:
>>
>> 	autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'        
>> ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib         --language M4sh --cache ''
>> --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet.
>> 	autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /bin/m4
>>
>> ("Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet" means "The specified path was not
>> found" - it's Danish...) So it looks like m4 is not installed. 
>>     
>
> Actually I don't think it's so much an error with "m4" but rather with some 
> path names in general. First of all, are you sure you installed everything 
> into a path name *without spaces*? No "c:\Program Files\" directory or 
> whatever the Danish translation is? What is msys' bin dir exactly?
>   
The path is C:/Programmer/msys/1.0/bin/ 
<file:///C:/Programmer/msys/1.0/bin/> so no spaces, but 'Programmer' has 
a capital letter - is that a problem?
<file:///C:/Programmer/msys/1.0/bin/>
> And at which package exactly was this? automake, autoconf, libtool? Can you 
> post the config.log of that package (it's in $GLOBAL_DIR\tmp\automake-x.y.z 
> or the other package name)? (Please send the file in gzip'd form.)
>   
It's under the configuration of autoconf. config.log is attached.

Thomas Arildsen
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