Trying to build GnuCash 1.8.8 from source for RHEL3

[John Reynolds]

------Original Message-----
From: Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer at exit109.com>
Sent: Monday 15 March 2004 03:10 pm
To: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Cc: 
Subject: Trying to build GnuCash 1.8.8  from source for RHEL3


> I started this, not expecting it to be fast. Problems have ensued, but I
>   am not sure they are dependency problems or not. The ./configure
> process fails for some of the components:
>
> 1.) Both Guppi and gnome-print fail the same way. Here are the last few
> lines from the ./configure output from gnome-print:
>
> checking for gdk-pixbuf-config... /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-config
> checking for GDK_PIXBUF - version >= 0.7.0... yes
> checking for gnome-config... (cached) /usr/bin/gnome-config
> Unknown library `xml'
> checking for xmlNewDoc in -lxml... Unknown library `xml'
> no
> configure: error: Could not link sample xml program
>
> Guppi is essentially identical to that. Yet:
>
> trillian:jdbeyer[/usr/src/gnome-print]$ locate libxml.so.1
> /usr/lib/libxml.so.1
> /usr/lib/libxml.so.1.8.17
>
> are there, where /usr/lib/libxml.so.1 is a symlink to
> /usr/lib/libxml.so.1.8.17.
>
> I assume it unlikely that there is a bug in the configure script. Does
> it want a libxml.a file somewhere (there is none in the rpm that put the
> libxml.so.1.8.17 in there). Is there some way to get around this? I.e.,
> what is the error message trying to tell me (other than having me trying
> to get Red Hat to release a gnucash rpm for RHEL3).
>
> 2.) guile-1.6.4 built and installed, seemingly OK.
>      slib (slib3a1) seems to have installed just fine.
>      Yet, when I try to run ./configure in g-wrap (1.3.4) I get, as the
> last few output lines:
>
> checking for Guile Scheme directory... /usr/local/share/guile
> checking if guile uses old style smobs... no
> checking for glib-config... /usr/bin/glib-config
> checking if guile long_long is at least as big as gint64... no
> checking if unsigned long is at least as big as guint32... no
> configure: error: cannot continue
> ./configure: line 8147: exit: size: numeric argument required
> ./configure: line 8147: exit: size: numeric argument required
>
> I do not understand the complaint, so I have no clue how to fix it.
>
> 3.) Sooner or later it looks as though I will be needing GtkHTML, but if
> I follow the link on the GnuCash page, it just gets me a page of
> apparently useless stuff. And none of the links there seem to come up
> with downloads. Where should I get authoritative source?
>
> 4.) Sooner or later I will probably need glade stuff. Can the following
> stuff that comes with the RHEL3 be used?
>
> libglade2-devel-2.0.1-3
> pygtk2-libglade-1.99.16-8
> libglade2-2.0.1-3
> glade2-2.0.0-1
>
> It seems that there is glade 2.0.1 for gnome GTK+ 2.x and GNOME 2.x
> systems and glade 0.6.4 for GTK+ 1.2 and GNOME 1.4 systems. Since all my
> gnome stuff seems to be
>
> libgnome-devel-2.2.2-6
> libgnomeprint22-2.2.1.3-5
> libgnomeprintui22-2.2.1.3-2.0
> libgnome-2.2.2-6
>
> I would infer mine is a 2.x system, though there are rpms such as these
> on there as well:
>
> gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-34.1
> gnome-libs-devel-1.4.1.2.90-34.1
> gnome-audio-1.4.0-6

I seem to remember a discussion on this subject sometime in the last month or 
two, with some instructions on how to make it work. I'm sorry I can not be of 
direct help. Check the archives, I believe this has been addressed.

JR