Errors compiling Gnucash for Mac OSX

[Olivier Kaloudoff]

> Can anyone provide me with instructions on how I can get gnucash to work
> on my Mac? I do have some programming knowledge, but I am a few years out 
> of practice.

Are you running 10.2 or 10.3?  With 10.3 that command should finish
and actually install gnucash successfully.  If it errors out, what's
the error?

Here is what I get on 10.3 / unstable:

(...)

checking for libglade... no
checking for main in -lgal... no
configure: error: gal library not found. See the README and config.log for 
more info.
### execution of /var/tmp/tmp.1.P0o576 failed, exit code 1
Failed: compiling gnucash-1.8.9-14 failed
Olivier-Kaloudoffs-Computer:~ ikal$ dpkg -l | grep gal
ii  gal21          0.22-14        GNOME application library
ii  gal21-shlibs   0.22-14        GNOME application library
Olivier-Kaloudoffs-Computer:~ ikal$ dpkg -L gal21

Olivier-Kaloudoffs-Computer:~ ikal$ tail 
/sw/src/gnucash-1.8.9-14/gnucash-1.8.9/config.log

configure:13772: checking for main in -lgal
configure:13787: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused  -no-cpp-precomp 
-I/sw/include/postgresql -I/sw/include  conftest.c -lgal -L/sw/lib 
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgal -lgnomeprint -lfreetype -lglade-gnome -lglade -lxml 
-lz -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgnome -lgnomesupport 
-lesd -laudiofile -lgdk_pixbuf -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -lintl -lXext 
-lX11 -lm -lgnomecanvaspixbuf -liconv -lpopt -lm -lintl  -lm 1>&5
ld: can't locate file for: -lglade-gnome
configure: failed program was:
#line 13780 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

int main() {
main()
; return 0; }



Sincerelly,



Olivier Kaloudoff