running gnucash-1.7.7

[Chris Vine]

On Tuesday 07 January 2003 7:31 am, Kai Nielsen wrote:
> Moin!
>
> Am Die, 2003-01-07 um 00.44 schrieb Chris Vine:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have managed to get gnucash-1.6.8 and gnucash-1.7.6 to compile and
> > work, but gnucash-1.7.7 is defeating me.
> >
> > It compiled without error, but when starting it up I get the following
> > guile error message:
> >
> > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> > ERROR: file not found
> >
> > Running 'strace gnucash' shows the error set out below (last 100 or so
> > lines included).  Sure enough, /usr/lib/libgw-gnc.la or
> > /usr/lib/gnucash/libgw-gnc.la do not exist.
>
> I had exactly the same problem, when I tried it. I also found out about
> the missing lib using strace. However, I am on gentoo, and first I tried
> to build a gentoo package using building instrunctions from an older
> versions.
> I then build the package by hand, and the libraries where build and
> installed correctly, so they *do* get build. When I installed by hand, I
> also added the "--enable-gui" switch which I didn't have when I first
> tried to build a proper package. Perhaps that made the difference.
> *shrug*
>
> Yours,
>
> Kai.

Damn.  I was hoping you were going to come up with a magic wand!  Getting 
everything to fit together with gnucash is a real nightmare.  It's great when 
it works, but it's hard getting there.

I will try recompiling with the --enable-gui switch and see if that helps.

Regards,

Chris.