GnuCash on CentOS 5

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> To answer my own question, I found this in config.in:
>
>   # We need at least version 1.3.31 of SWIG because
>   # that's when SWIG doesn't barf on the "inline" keyword in C headers anymore
>
> If swig 1.3.31 is indeed required, then CentOS/RHEL is not a viable developer 
> platform for GnuCash in the current state of affairs.
>
> Note that GnuCash is not part of the RHEL base distribution. It's maintained 
> in Fedora's Epel repository (a relatively conservative support repository that 
> recompiles a number of Fedora packages for RHEL/CentOS).
>
> Epel's policy is to never override a package in the base distribution. Swig is 
> part of RHEL base, so Epel will not provide a more recent version.
>
> I have submitted an upgrade request for swig to 1.3.31 in RedHat's bugzilla. I 
> don't know if Red Hat will consider it. 

True, EL5 isn't a dev platform, but you don't need swig to build from
the tarball.  On some other (more recent) platform run:

  make dist

then tar the tarball to EL5 and then you can build it there..  Or at
least you should be able to.

> Geert

-derek

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