Problem with configure to build gnucash 1.8.5

[John Reynolds]

Guglielmo,

I'm sorry I don't have the skills to be of more help. 

Hopefully one of the developers will read this and provide some guidance.

John R.

On Friday 22 August 2003 04:53 am, Guglielmo Pasa wrote:
> I did !
> My configure line is as follow :
>
>
> ./configure   --with-gnu-ld --with-pic
>
>
> I also tried without  --with-pic but without success.
>
> I even tried to rebuild configure with autoconf, but I first had to
> delete the redundant  intl/Makefile po/Makefile.in in configure.in.
> All I got then on running configure is an error at the same point saying
>
>
> $ ./configure   --with-gnu-ld --with-pic
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... found
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
> checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for egrep... grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
> checking for inline... inline
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for off_t... yes
> checking for size_t... yes
> checking for working alloca.h... yes
> checking for alloca... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking for getpagesize... yes
> checking for working mmap... yes
> checking whether we are using the GNU C Library 2.1 or newer... yes
> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for shared library run path origin... done
> checking for iconv... yes
> checking how to link with libiconv... -liconv
> checking argz.h usability... yes
> checking argz.h presence... yes
> checking for argz.h... yes
> checking limits.h usability... yes
> checking limits.h presence... yes
> checking for limits.h... yes
> checking locale.h usability... yes
> checking locale.h presence... yes
> checking for locale.h... yes
> checking nl_types.h usability... yes
> checking nl_types.h presence... yes
> checking for nl_types.h... yes
> checking malloc.h usability... yes
> checking malloc.h presence... yes
> checking for malloc.h... yes
> checking stddef.h usability... yes
> checking stddef.h presence... yes
> checking for stddef.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
> checking for string.h... (cached) yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking sys/param.h usability... yes
> checking sys/param.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/param.h... yes
> checking for feof_unlocked... yes
> checking for fgets_unlocked... yes
> checking for getc_unlocked... yes
> checking for getcwd... yes
> checking for getegid... yes
> checking for geteuid... yes
> checking for getgid... yes
> checking for getuid... yes
> checking for mempcpy... yes
> checking for munmap... yes
> checking for putenv... yes
> checking for setenv... yes
> checking for setlocale... yes
> checking for stpcpy... yes
> checking for strcasecmp... yes
> checking for strdup... yes
> checking for strtoul... yes
> checking for tsearch... yes
> checking for __argz_count... yes
> checking for __argz_stringify... yes
> checking for __argz_next... yes
> checking for iconv declaration...
>          extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t
> *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
> checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
> checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
> checking for bison... bison
> checking version of bison... 1.875, ok
> checking whether NLS is requested... yes
> checking whether included gettext is requested... no
> checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
> no
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
> checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking how to recognise dependant libraries... pass_all
> checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
> checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
> checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
> checking for dlfcn.h... yes
> checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
> checking for strip... strip
> checking for objdir... .libs
> checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
> checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
> checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
> checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
> yes
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... no
> checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
> creating libtool
> checking for strerror in -lcposix... (cached) no
> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking for limits.h... (cached) yes
> checking for stpcpy... (cached) yes
> checking for memcpy... yes
> checking for timegm... yes
> checking for towupper... yes
> checking for the tm_gmtoff member of struct tm... yes
> checking if scanf supports %lld conversions... yes
> checking ltdl.h usability... yes
> checking ltdl.h presence... yes
> checking for ltdl.h... yes
> checking for glib-config... /usr/bin/glib-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 0.99.7... yes
> checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) yes
> checking dl.h usability... no
> checking dl.h presence... no
> checking for dl.h... no
> checking ghttp_ssl.h usability... no
> checking ghttp_ssl.h presence... no
> checking for ghttp_ssl.h... no
> checking utmp.h usability... yes
> checking utmp.h presence... yes
> checking for utmp.h... yes
> checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
> checking mcheck.h usability... yes
> checking mcheck.h presence... yes
> checking for mcheck.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking wctype.h usability... yes
> checking wctype.h presence... yes
> checking for wctype.h... yes
> checking for dlopen... no
> checking for dlopen in -ldl... no
> checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
> checking for dlopen... (cached) no
> configure: error: Dynamic linking is not available on this platform.
> Some apps
> ./configure: line 12597: exit: like: numeric argument required
> ./configure: line 12597: exit: like: numeric argument required
>
> Save the last two lines it is the same error as the one before.
>
> Le jeu 21/08/2003 à 22:29, John Reynolds a écrit :
> > One last shot at this from me...
> >
> > have you looked at the ./configure --help options? One of them is
> > --with-gnu-ld , perhaps this will do what you are looking for?
> >
> > John R.
> >
> > On Thursday 21 August 2003 03:57 pm, Guglielmo Pasa wrote:
> > > yep for LFS.
> > >
> > > nope for running gc before on this machine.
> > >
> > > Le jeu 21/08/2003 à  21:49, John Reynolds a écrit :
> > > > Sorry, GC = GnuCash.
> > > >
> > > > LFS = Linux From Scratch ? correct?
> > > >
> > > > well now you have me stumped. Again the question, Have you had
> > > > GnuCash
> > >
> > > running
> > >
> > > > before? I'm guessing no.
> > > >
> > > > My skills fail when presented with the question regarding dynamic
> > >
> > > linking.
> > >
> > > > Maybe the Warlord will help.
> > > >
> > > > John R.
> > > > Le jeu 21/08/2003 à 20:59, John Reynolds a écrit :
> > > > Guglielmo,
> > > >
> > > > what distribution are you running? have you had GC running before?
> > > >
> > > > John R.