[Fwd: Re: What to use for Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 ES?]

[Mark Eackloff]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Mark Eackloff <meackloff at cox.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>2) I did not install a gnucash RPM.  I downloaded and built from the
>>gnucash-1.8.8.tar.gz distro.  I once had the gnucash-1.8.1-*.rpm
>>from my RHL9 CDs up and running on RHEL3.  Then I decided to upgrade
>>to the 1.8.8 release.  Don't ask me what I did to get the 1.8.1
>>running.  I don't remember and didn't take notes that time.  But the
>>document I attached with my prior post was for building from the
>>1.8.8 tarball under RHEL3 ES.
> 
> 
> You do realize that there is an RPM for 1.8.8 on RHL9 at:
>     http://people.redhat.com/notting/gnucash/
> 
> -derek
> 

Yes.  For RHEL3 I had to I had to go back to the RH9 distro for a number a packages to satisfy the dependencies.  Once I had it installed I got a run-time error on startup.  Specifically, I got the following:


[root at tweedledum root]# gnucash
Backtrace:
In unknown file:
   ?: 0* [start-program]
In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/price-quotes.scm:
 224: 1* (set! program (gnc:run-sub-process #f gnc:*finance-quote-check* ...))
 224: 2* [gnc:run-sub-process #f "/usr/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check" ...]
In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/process.scm:
  46: 3  (let (# #) (if # #f #))
   ...
  60: 4  (if (not #) (begin # # #) (begin # # # ...))
  60: 5* [not ...
  60: 6*  [zero? #f]
 
/usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/process.scm:60:20: In procedure zero? i n expression (zero? pid):
/usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/process.scm:60:20: Wrong type argument in position 1: #f
[root at tweedledum root]#


That's when I went the tarball route.  

But after you posted the above I tried the rpm again (on another RHEL3 machine).  The problem went away when I switched from guile-1.6.4-8 (from the RHEL3 distro) to guile-1.6.4-8.2 (from the RH9.0.93 - Beta Updates distro).