Compiling GNU Cash on OS X

[Stephen Fisher]

Howard,

Sorry should have been clearer. Other installs were all done using fink  
commander and binaries. Running OS 10.3 Panther on Powerbook G4.


On Oct 31, 2003, at 4:22 PM, Howard Kim wrote:

>   Hello Stephen,
>
>   Some stupid questions to get some context.  Did you install the  
> other items you listed from source or binaries?  What version of OS X  
> are you running?  10.2 or 10.3?  Are you using Fink and Fink  
> Commander?
>
>   Regards,
>   Howard Kim
>
> On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 06:23  PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
>> Probably not the right place for this question but this thread seems  
>> to have folks who may be able to answer the question.
>> Glade and guile archives are no help. Not even sure of which of the  
>> 100 glade mail lists to post to to ask.
>>
>> New to unix.
>> Want to install gnucash.
>> Trying to work through dependencies rather than do the  
>> fink-wait-a-day process.
>> Successfully installed autoconf, automake, gnome and gtk +2 Both  
>> glade and guile error out with similar problem.
>>
>> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
>> checking for working aclocal... found
>> checking for working autoconf... found
>> checking for working automake... found
>> checking for working autoheader... found
>> checking for working makeinfo... found
>> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of  
>> Makefiles... no
>> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
>> checking for gcc... no
>> checking for cc... no
>> checking for cc... no
>> checking for cl... no
>> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
>> ### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
>> Failed: compiling glade-0.6.4-3 failed
>>
>> Appear to be missing a c compiler.
>> Guessing error is pretty basic.
>> Guessing has something to do with trying to install from source vs  
>> binary.
>> Not sure what to do next.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 12, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Paul Fischer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I want to thank John Reynolds and Nicolas Scheffer for helping me  
>>> get GnuCash compiled and installed on OSX. I want to point out that  
>>> the compile and install is not as simple as launch fink commander,  
>>> select unstable packages, and click gnucash to install.
>>>
>>> Many of the packages GnuCash relies on don't install properly from  
>>> the unstable feed. To anyone else who tries this, I strongly suggest  
>>> following the above instructions to see what packages GnuCash wants  
>>> to install and writing them down or pasting them into a text window.  
>>> Then cancel the install, go back to stable packages only, and  
>>> install as many of the packages from the stable list as possible.  
>>> Then repeat the directions above.
>>>
>>> I had to drop back to stable packages several times to get dev  
>>> libraries and other packages to install at all. Also, read the error  
>>> messages very carefully. At some point, I needed to manually run  
>>> ranlib on a library that was out of date, but if I hadn't read the  
>>> error messages in fink commander carefully I would have never seen  
>>> >> it.
>>>
>>> Again, my thanks to all of you for a great product. Getting it  
>>> running on OS X saved me re-entering 2 years of data in Quicken. I  
>>> try to avoid using Quicken when possible, but my linux machine died,  
>>> and I haven't had time to get it working again. GnuCash on OS X is a  
>>> much better solution for me.
>>>
>>>
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