does gnucash really install?!?!!?!

[jake]

Ok, I have been trying to get gnucash to install for the past 7 hours. 
 My redhat 8 box would install it, but when you type 'gnucash' at teh 
shell promt nothing ever happens.  But I want it to work on my slackware 
box.  After hacking away many hours getting different libraries and 
programs to be 'seen' by gnucash i'm stuck here.  I get this error after 
configuring and doing make:

sixtp-dom-parsers.c: In function `dom_tree_to_guid':
sixtp-dom-parsers.c:59: structure has no member named `val'
make[5]: *** [sixtp-dom-parsers.lo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnucash-1.8.0/src/backend/file'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnucash-1.8.0/src/backend/file'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnucash-1.8.0/src/backend'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnucash-1.8.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnucash-1.8.0'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
bash-2.05#


Just to be complete, let me add that I changed

    #else /* defined(LIBXML_VERSION) && LIBXML_VERSION >= 20000 */

    #  include </SAX.h>
    #  include <gnome-xml/tree.h>
    #  include <gnome-xml/parser.h>
    #  include <gnome-xml/xmlmemory.h>
    #  include <gnome-xml/parserInternals.h>
    #  ifndef xmlChildrenNode
    #    define xmlChildrenNode childs

to


    #else /* defined(LIBXML_VERSION) && LIBXML_VERSION >= 20000 */

    #  include </usr/include/libxml/SAX.h>
    #  include </usr/include/libxml/tree.h>
    #  include </usr/include/libxml/parser.h>
    #  include </usr/include/libxml/xmlmemory.h>
    #  include </usr/include/libxml/parserInternals.h>
    #  ifndef xmlChildrenNode
    #    define xmlChildrenNode childs

in src/backend/file/gnc-xml-helper.h so the thing would 'work'. 
 Unfortunently I have no idea what to do about  sixtp-dom-parsers.c:59: 
structure has no member named `val'.  Any help would be appreciated.  I 
get the same error with 1.8.1 and 1.8.0 on my slackware 8.0 box.