Problems building GNUCash 2.2.3

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

John M Collins <jmc at xisl.com> writes:

> Please CC a reply to my email address jmc AT xisl DOT com as I am not
> subscribed
>
> I am trying to build GNUCash 2.2.3 on my Opteron machine which is
> running Mandriva 2007.0
>
> I hit some problems with it crashing on startup and searching your
> archives I see you advised someone else to get newer versions slib and
> guile, both of which I've done apparently without problems
>
> The version of guile is 1.8.4

I'd recommend you downgrade guile to an earlier version, perhaps
1.8.1 or even 1.6.

> However when I build GNUCash 2.2.3 after updating slib and guile the
> compilation aborts with:
>
[snip]
> ../../src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_i_deprecated_symbol_chars'
> ../../src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_i_deprecated_string_chars'
> ../../src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_i_freelist2'
> ../../src/app-utils/.libs/libgncmod-app-utils.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_i_vectorp'
> ../../src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_i_deprecated_string_length'
> ../../src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_i_deprecated_stringp'
> ../../src/app-utils/.libs/libgncmod-app-utils.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_i_object_length'
> ../../src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_i_master_freelist2'
> ../../src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to
> `scm_is_bool'

This definitely looks like an issue with the guile library....

> As I don't know too much about scheme, to which the undefined symbols
> all seem to relate, I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the
> right direction - is it possibly one or more of the other libraries I
> need to update? Mandriva are OK in some ways but I absolutely always hit
> problems when I want a more up-to-date version of something than what
> they supply.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> John Collins, Welwyn Garden City, UK
>
> P.S. I also hit a problem building he pixmaps but I commented a bit out
> of the Makefile in the pixmaps directory and it seemed OK after that.
> The problem isn't there in GNUCash 2.2.2.

What problem?

-derek

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