Compile help

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

magpie <cabernet at webshield.net.au> writes:

> Compiling gnucash 1.8.9
>
> My attempt to compile Gnucash keeps stopping at libgal, and I am not sure
> what I am doing wrong.
[snip]
> checking for main in -lgal... no
> configure: error: gal library not found. See the README and config.log for
> more info.
>
> Gal is installed as per below. I have tried changing $PATH. 
> I have tried a number of ./configure options. Can anyone
> suggest some checks ? Help with diagnosing this would be appreciated. 
> According to my apt database I have got gal 0.24-215 installed along with
> gal-devel 0.24-215.

Well, um, did you "See ... config.log" as per the message from configure?
What did config.log say about the failure?

-derek

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