Gnucash 1.8.8 fails to build on Solaris 9

[Derek Atkins]

I've built it just fine on Solaris 5.8 and 5.9.  The command is
--with-included-gettext (although I must admit that I never actually
tried that myself).

Basically, make sure you have a modern libtool installed, including
libltdl.  Then I did:

CPPFLAGS=-D_nl_domain_bindings=libintl_nl_domain_bindings LD=gcc ./configure ...

-derek

jritorto at nut.net writes:

> Hi,
> 	I downloaded the source, untarred it and ran
>
>   ./configure --use-included-gettext
>
> as per the instructions in doc/build-solaris.txt, but the build 
> immediately failed thusly:
>
> configure: error: --use-included-gettext: invalid option; use --help to  
> show usage 
>
> I have gmake installed:
> # gmake --version
> GNU Make 3.80
> Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see [...]
>
> Here's my config.log:
> # cat config.log 
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
>
> configure:841: checking for non-GNU ld
> configure:876: checking if the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is GNU ld
> GNU ld version 2.11 (with BFD 2.11)
> configure:897: checking for gcc
> configure:1010: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works
> configure:1026: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5
> configure:1052: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a 
> cross-compiler
> configure:1057: checking whether we are using GNU C
> configure:1066: gcc -E conftest.c
> configure:1085: checking whether gcc accepts -g
> configure:1157: checking for a BSD compatible install
> configure:1210: checking whether build environment is sane
> configure:1267: checking whether make sets ${MAKE}
> configure:1313: checking for working aclocal
> configure:1326: checking for working autoconf
> configure:1339: checking for working automake
> configure:1352: checking for working autoheader
> configure:1365: checking for working makeinfo
> #
>
> What gives?  Does gnucash not actually work under unix?  Is it Linux only?  
> I need this software for my business if I'm to ever get away from the
> Intuit cruft, which I'd hoped to do before the end of this quarter..
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> jacob ritorto
>
>
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