Compiling Difficulty

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting frank <frank at overtons.org>:

> I am working on compiling gnucash for CentOS 5
>
> So far I have :
> downloaded, configured, make,  make install
> compat-guile-16-1.6.7-6.fc6.src.rpm
> downloaded, configured, make,  make install     g-wrap-1.9.6-7.1.src.rpm
> downloaded, configured
> gnucash-2.0.5-1.fc6.src.rpm

Wait -- why did you "make, make install" from an srpm?  Why not
just rpmbuild --rebuild ; rpm -Uvh ..  ?

> When I try to make gnucash I run into difficulties. Specifically,  make
> check on /src/engine/test fails as follows:
>
[snip]
> -Wl,/usr/local/lib/gnucash -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `scm_makfrom0str'
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `scm_gc_protect_object'
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `scm_call_2'
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_gc_unprotect_object'
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `scm_make_real'
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `scm_call_1'
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `gw_wcp_assimilate_ptr'
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `scm_equal_p'
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `scm_call_0'
> ../.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `scm_c_eval_string'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [test-link] Error 1

This implies that libguile is missing or broken (most likely).

> I suspect the guile libs are somehow not correctly versioned or configured
>> # rpm -qa | grep guile
>> compat-guile-16-devel-1.6.7-6.fc6
>> guile-1.8.0-8.20060831cvs
>> guile-devel-1.8.0-8.20060831cvs
> I force installed compat-guile-16-devel-1.6.7-6.fc6 with --nodeps
> because compat-guile-16-1.6.7-6.fc6.src.rpm was installed with make install.

UM...   You can't have compat-guile-16-devel AND guile-1.8 AND
guile-devel-1.8 all at the same time.   I'm sorry to say but you've
just royally f**ked up your system.  The fact that you used "make install"
made it even worse.

Right now, i suggest you re-install your machine and try again.  This time,
use RPM for everything.  Don't "make install" anything by hand.  And pick
either guile-1.6 or guile-1.8 and stick with it.

> # guile
> guile> (version)
> "1.6.7"
>
> Any ideas on what's wrong and what can be done to get this to compile
> and work?

Start over again.

-derek
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