building with recent g-wrap fails

David Hampton hampton at employees.org
Tue Jun 15 13:17:27 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 09:47, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup:
> Fedora core2 test2
> Desktop kde
> Tried gnucash latest unstable and latest stable.
> ==
> 
> I don't see this subject covered in June May April of archives,
> searching for g-wrap in subject so assuming its not a common problem.
> 
> I've downloaded both the latest unstable and stable tar balls.. both
> exhibit the same problem.  
> 
> Running configure breaks on a g-wrap error:
>  ./configure
>   [...]
>   checking for guile - 1.3.4 <= version < 99.99.99... yes
>   checking for g-wrap-config... no
>   configure: warning: g-wrap-config failed
>   configure: error: 
>  
>     g-wrap does not appear to be installed correctly, or is not new
>     enough.  Right now gnucash requires at least version 1.3.3 to
>     build as there were major changes between version 1.3.1 and 1.3.2,
>     and extra support added between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 that is now
>     required by gnucash.  If you need to install g-wrap, you can find
>     it at http://www.gnucash.org/pub/g-wrap.
>  
> I have installed:
> 
> rpm -qa|grep g-wrap:
>   g-wrap-1.3.4-5.1
> 
> Which should satisfy the requirement.

That's rarely true when compiling a program.  In general, the 'xxx'
package satisfies runtime requirements, but the 'xxx-devel' package is
needed to satisfy the additional compile time requirements.  You need to
install the g-wrap-devel package.

David

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