Compiling gnucash on SuSE 9.3 (was Re: 1.8.10+ on Suse 9.3 or release import/export?)

[Derek Atkins]

Des Dougan <des at DouganConsulting.com> writes:

> 1. gnucash was installed in /usr/bin/gnucash rather than in the gnome
> tree. I used Thomas's script for the compile, although I ran as root
> (I'm the only user of this PC).

I suspect this is because it ran configure with --prefix=/usr instead of
--prefix=/opt/gnome

> 2. When I ran gnucash after the compile process had completed, I got an
> error:
>
> des at p133:~> /usr/bin/gnucash
> ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> ERROR: No such file or directory: "/usr/share/guile/1.6/slib/mklibcat"
>
> The only mklibcat file I can find is /usr/share/slib/mklibcat.scm.

run gnucash as root, once.  This will cause it to build the libcat.
Then you can run it as you.

> I'd appreciate any ideas on what's happening here.
>
> Thanks and regards,

-derek

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