does gnucash really install?!?!!?!

[Derek Atkins]

I'm not convinced that the code supports libxml2.  Do you have
libxml installed, or only libxml2?

-derek

jake <jake at uptimecomputing.com> writes:

> 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.
> 
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