error in compiling 1.8.7

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 24 13:12:13 CDT 2003


Note that this is a problem with "gnucash-docs", not "gnucash"...

What version(s) of libdb do you have installed?

I've heard of this problem but unfortunately I don't really work with the
documentation bundle enough to give you a good answer.  Hopefully someone
else will.

-derek

Bill Suit <bsuit at bellsouth.net> writes:

> Have tried several times to compile 1.8.7 and the following is the same
> in all instances:
> ....
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/gnucash-1.8.7/work/gnucash-docs-1.8.3/guide'
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/gnucash-1.8.7/work/gnucash-docs-1.8.3/guide'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/gnucash-1.8.7/work/gnucash-docs-1.8.3/guide'
> Making install in doc-tools
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/gnucash-1.8.7/work/gnucash-docs-1.8.3/doc-tools'
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/gnucash-1.8.7/work/gnucash-docs-1.8.3/doc-tools'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> if test -r help-search-index.db; then \
> rm -f help-search-index.db; \
> fi
> ./build-help-index \
> ./dbadd \
> ./help-search-index.db \
> ../help/C/gnucash-help/*.html \
> ../guide/C/gnucash-guide/*.html;
> Error writing data.
> 
> and there it sits, never completing. Thoughts and suggestions welcome.
> This is on a gentoo box with kernel 2.6.0-test5-mm4,gcc 3.2.1. 1.8.5 is
> running just fine.
> 
> 
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