running gnucash-1.7.7

[John Reynolds]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:08:40 +0000, "Chris Vine"
<chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> said:
> On Tuesday 07 January 2003 8:38 pm, Chris Vine wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 January 2003 7:31 am, Kai Nielsen wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > 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.
> >

> > I will try recompiling with the --enable-gui switch and see if that helps.
> >
> 
> It was a magic wand after all.  Unlikely as it may sound, it works
> correctly 
> when gnucash is configured with --enable-gui.  With that configure
> option, it 
> builds /usr/lib/libgw-gnc.so, etc.
> 
> I built/run it under gnome-2 (although I also have gnome-1.4 installed). 
> I 
> wonder if that was confusing the configure system?
> 
> Chris.
> 

Chris or Kai,

Is that?
./configure --enable-gui
or 
make --enable-gui

(sorry to be so ignorant)

John