GnuCash on CentOS 5

[Derek Atkins]

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

> 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 ?

Well..  if webkit isn't packaged at all then it's a clear candidate for
EPEL once GnuCash gets released.

A too-old libdbi, however, might be a bit of a problem for us.

Note that there have been many other updates and bugfixes that don't
require dbi (or necessarily webkit).

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

-derek
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