Gnucash install

[Linas Vepstas]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:45:46PM +0000, Paulo J. Matos aka PDestroy was heard to remark:
> linas@linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:06:05PM +0000, Paulo J. Matos aka PDestroy was heard to remark:
> > > > Have you tried compiled the same program by hand ?(do the same test that
> > > > configure does ??
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > configure:3408: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused    -rdynamic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.c -lqthreads   1>&5
> > > 
> > > I cannot find file conftest.c
> > > It must be generated my configure and then deleted since it is
> > > not on my disk actually 
> > 
> > 
> > Yes exactly.  But it was right there in your previous email message, as
> > part of the error message. I assumed you noticed it :-)  Sometihing like 
> > main(){ xmlNew(); }
> > 
> > cut and paste that into a file, and try to compile it.  
> > 
> 
> [root@localhost pdestroy]# gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -lxmllib -lm teste.c
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxmllib

well, that error message is different than the last error message.  What
changed?  Do you now see what the problem is?

> > what's the error message? what would you have to fix to make it go
> > away?
> >
> 
> I don't have the slightest idea of what do to...

Well, if you don't know hhow to debug, then why are you trying to
compile from source?  why don't you install a precompiled binary?

--linas

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