Problems with popt

[Bill Gribble]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:53:14AM -0300, Bruno Trevisan wrote:
> checking for poptStrippedArgv in -lpopt... no
> configure: error:
> 
>   popt 1.5 or newer is required to build gnucash. You can download
>   the latest version from ftp://people.redhat.com/sopwith/popt/, or if
>   you're running Debian, install the libpopt-dev pacakge.
> 
> What am I missing?

What does your config.log show?  The error message printed by popt is
possibly wrong or misleading .. it probably just means the configure
test program failed to run. 

You can usually cut-n-paste the test program out of the config.log
(the source code and compiler command line are included in the log),
then try to compile and run it by hand to figure out what the problem
is.

Good luck, 
Bill Gribble