gnucash: symbol lookup error

[Derek Atkins]

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

> Op maandag 12 december 2011 22:52:06 schreef Alex Aycinena:
>> I checked out the latest trunk revision 21729 and it builds OK.
>> However, when I try to start it, I get the following error:
>> 
>>   "symbol lookup error:
>> /opt/gnucash-svn/gnucash-working/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-business-core.so:
>> undefined symbol: scm_init_sw_business_core_module"
>> 
>> and it terminates. Can somebody tell me how to correct this. I went
>> back in stages to 21705 and had the same problem. I gave up after
>> that. Are other people able to get the application to work? Fedora 15.
>> 
> r21729 should not have libgncmod-business-core.so anymore. The complete 
> business-core module was merged into other parts of the source tree.
>
> I'm not sure what is the best method (read with least impact) to fix this, but 
> on my system I brute-force fixed this as follows:
> 1. Remove the directory in which gnucash gets installed and built
> 2. remove my build directory (I do build in a directory separate from the 
> source directory, makes this kind of operations much easier.
> 3. rerun autogen.sh, configure, make, ...
>
> I'm sure the same effect can be had by more subtle changes, but I don't know 
> that magic mantra.

make maintainer-clean?

> Geert

-derek
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