GnuCash on CentOS 5

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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
> 

That was exactly my next step.

RHEL as target platform is in serious trouble...

1. There's no packaged webkit for RHEL5/EPEL
2. RHEL5 (base) ships libdbi 0.8.1, but GnuCash uses DBI_DECIMAL_SIZEMASK a 
constant that is only defined starting from libdbi 0.8.2.

I'm not sure how to proceed here. I thought webkit and dbi were the two major 
features to warrant the 2.4 release. If they're not possible on RHEL, can we 
say then that we support RHEL ?

Phill, if you read this, it may be a good idea to set a minimum required 
version for libdbi in configure.in...

Geert