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

Des Dougan des at DouganConsulting.com
Mon Aug 8 22:00:14 EDT 2005


Derek,

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:52 +0200, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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

Yes, you're right. I hadn't spotted that when I looked at Thomas's
script.

> > 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.

Yes, that worked fine. Thanks for that. Is there no way the compile can
set this up?


Thanks,

Des
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