new build-suse.txt, minor other patches

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Tue, 09 Jan 2001 12:07:36 -0800


Hi Herbert, thanks for the patch.


Herbert Thoma writes:
> 
> I just installed GnuCash on a new Computer (SuSE 7.0).
> It took me more than a day to get all dependencies and
> finally GnuCash compiled!!! And I did this before!
> We can definetly not release GnuCash until ghttp and guppi
> become part of a standard gnome distribution ...

Or provide packages ourselves, which is what we'll
probably have to do.


> As a result of my installation efforts I produced a patch:
> 
> - updated doc/build-suse.txt
> - added libguppi.m4 to macros dir (otherwise autoconf complained (?))
> - added ${GHTTP_CFLAGS} to CFLAGS in src/engine/Makefile.am
>   (otherwise gcc didn't find ghttp.h)

I left out libguppi.m4, which is supposed to be installed by guppi
into a system directory where autoconf can find it.

dave