compiling gnc 1.7.7 on SuSE: success

[John Reynolds]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:47:24 +0100 (CET), "Thomas Spahni" <tsp@lawbiz.ch>
said:
> Gang,
> 
> this is to give some positive feedback to those who are desperately
> trying
> to get gnucash running. I started out with SuSE 8.0 distribution. Then I
> did:
> 
> - download the source gnucash-1.7.7.tar.gz and g-wrap-1.3.4
> - tar xvzf gnucash-1.7.7.tar.gz
> - tar xvzf g-wrap-1.3.4
> - cd gnucash-1.7.7.tar.gz
> - configure --prefix=/usr
>   repeat this step ...
> 
> each time when it bailed out I had to add a package from the distribution
> CD. Sometimes it was necessary to have a look at config.log to see what
> was missing. When it asked for -lesd that meant to install the esound
> package. Everyone's mileage may vary here depending on what is already
> installed.

Thanks for this info. I was running into this error just this morning.
Again, Thank you for your dedication and support.

John Reynolds

(... esound... who would have thought...)