installing on OSX

[Neil Williams]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>There is currently a problem with Debian unstable and gnucash, related to 
>>libltdl3 - it's all in the gnucash archives and debian bug tracking system. 
>>Until it's fixed, Debian users need to downgrade libltdl3 to v1.5-1 with:
> 
> Umm... Are you sure that this debian bug actually affects MacOSX
> users?

It will if the Mac OSX user uses apt because, IIRC, apt will use the 
same package databases.

>>If you're using apt on Mac OSX, it's likely that apt will use the same package 
>>database and may install 1.5-4 which doesn't work with gnucash. The 1.6 
>>release of libltdl3 does work but is still experimental.
> 
> 
> Oh, good to know 1.6 fixes the problem...  Has there been some
> debriefing on the actual issue with 1.5-4?
The 1.5.2-4 release didn't fix the problem with 1.5.2-2

All I've found is this:

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:44:05AM +0200, Frank Pavageau wrote:

 > I've traced it to libltdl3 (from libtool): downgrading from 1.5.2-2 to
 > 1.5.2-1 solved the problem for me.
 >
The only change that occurred between those releases was dropping
RTLD_GLOBAL from the dlopen() flags.




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