Have any users tried to build 1.7.5 on a MacOSX 10.2 system?

[Matthew Vanecek]

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On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 18:09, Kaaren Shalom & Richard Gilligan wrote:
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> I am a new (and happy) Gnucash user.  Thankyou to everyone who has
> helped this Free software succeed.=20=20
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> [host:/] kandr% /sw/bin/gnucash --version
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> GnuCash 1.6.8
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> My gnucash  was downloaded, complied, and installed on my Mac OSX
> 10.2.2 system just the other day using the Free fink package
> management system.  I believe fink is specific to the Mac OSX world
> but  suppose it must be similar to the rpm system that I see mentioned
> all the time.  The install process was relatively painless so I would
> like to offer a specific thank you to Peter O'Gorman
> <fontfamily><DEFANGED_param>Trebuchet MS</DEFANGED_param>who is listed as=
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> of the fink gnucash 1.6.8 package.  I run gnucash using the XDarwin
> xwindows server and the twm window manager that was installed with
> XDarwin.
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> Hoping to take advantage of new features I have read about in version
> 1.7.5,  seeing that there is no fink package available for version
> 1.7.5, and feeling lucky, I  downloaded 1.7.5.tar.gz from
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> <<http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/1.7.x/gnucash-1.7.5=
.tar.gz>
> and tried to build it on my own but have not gotten far yet.
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> Following my usual unix software user approach, I have tried  running
> these commands: make, automake, and ./configure, I would have tried
> ./autogen.sh which was mentioned in doc/README.build-system but I do
> not 'find' that script among the source files.
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> Has anyone tried to build 1.7.5 on a MacOSX system?  Any suggestions
> for how a mere mortal might proceed when ./configure and make install
> are insufficent?  Heck, is anyone else even _using_ Gnucash on a
> MacOSX system?
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> Thanks in advance for any suggestions (or for letting me know that it
> is not possible if that is the case),=20=20
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> Richard Gilligan
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> more details follow
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> ./configure fails with this error:
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> <<snip>
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> checking for ltdl.h... no
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> configure: error: Cannot find ltdl.h -- libtool-devel not installed?
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> I googled around looking for a libtool-devel that I could try to
> install but gained no confidence.
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Don't know what's available for Mac OSX WRT libtool, you may want to hit
the Mac lists about GNU software for some advice there.  You *will* need
it, though.

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> automake gave me this:
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> [host:~/Desktop/gnucash-1.7.5] admin% automake
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> configure.in:42: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
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> configure.in:42: old Automake version.  You should recreate aclocal.m4
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> configure.in:42: with aclocal and run automake again.
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> doc-tools/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
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> /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
> AM_CONDITIONAL
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> /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
> AM_CONDITIONAL
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> <</snip>
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Looks like you're using automake/aclocal 1.6, and the aclocal.m4 was
probably created with automake/aclocal 1.4.x.  In the root source
directory, you can run "./autogen.sh", and it should re-create that
stuff.


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