libgw-gnc.so missing

Oliver Burnett-Hall olly at burnett-hall.co.uk
Fri Aug 6 20:19:26 EDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:50, Martijn Lina wrote:
> I read a discussion between Derek Atkins and Oliver Burnett-Hall about a
> missing libgw-gnc.so when installing gnucash:
> 
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2004-May/010390.html
> 
> After running into the same problem i took a deeper look into it because i
> wasn't using prefix=<blabla> as an argument to make install. When looking at
> what happened at install time, I noticed that the failure occured whet libtool
> was relinking libgw-gnc-module.la. It seems that libtool assumes libgncmodule
> had already been installed and as I was using DESTDIR, it wasn't...

Derek's suggestion worked - set LIBRARY_PATH as well as DESTDIR.

Here's the commands that workedforme:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
# make
# LIBRARY_PATH=${startdir}/pkg/usr/lib:${startdir}/pkg/usr/lib/gnucash \
	make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install

- olly



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