Errors compiling Gnucash for Mac OSX

[Robyn Phillips]

on 6/7/04 7:49, Neil Williams wrote:
> To start Gnucash, find Applications/Utilities and start X11,
> then /sw/bin/gnucash in the xterm. I've set /sw/bin in my path using bash and
> set gnucash in the X11 applications list, so it's available from the X11
> menu.
> 

Neil - you are great. Thank you for helping me. Typing /sw/bin/gnucash in
X11 started it up and now, as a Quicken user, I just need to learn new
things.



>> 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.
>> 
> 
> sudo fink selfupdate
> sudo fink install gnucash
> (wait . . . . )
> 
> /sw/bin/gnucash
> 

The one thing I am confused about, is that that the readme files for Gnucash
gave me the impression I had to compile gnucash. But I haven't done this
(due to some errors). Have I misunderstood something?