Getting Gnucash 1.8.11 to Compile on CentOS 4.0 (RHEL 4)

Mark Eackloff meackloff at cox.net
Wed May 4 00:18:50 EDT 2005


Ryan McGregor wrote:
> Hi all. I currently run CentOS 4.0 (which is a distro rebuilt from the
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux source RPMs in case you don't know). I am
> trying to compile Gnucash 1.8.11, but I keep getting an error that
> gnome-config could not be found. I have installed libgnome-devel and all
> of it's dependancies. It is still not finding gnome-config. Does anyone
> know what package I need to install/compile to get this working. I have
> attached the output of the configure script below. Thx for any and all
> help :-) Thx.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
> checking for guile - 1.3.4 <= version < 99.99.99... yes
> checking for g-wrap-config... /usr/local/bin/g-wrap-config
> checking for g-wrap - 1.3.3 <= version < 99.99.99... yes
> checking for g-wrap compile args... -I /usr/local/include/g-wrap
> checking for g-wrap link args... -L/usr/local/lib -lgwrap-wct -lgwrap-
> glib
> checking for g-wrap module directory... /usr/local/share/guile
> checking if g-wrap works...
> Some deprecated features have been used.  Set the environment
> variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED to "detailed" and rerun the
> program to get more information.  Set it to "no" to suppress
> this message.
> yes
> checking if guile long_long is at least as big as gint64... yes
> checking for scm_long_long2num in -lguile... yes
> checking if unsigned long is at least as big as guint32... yes
> checking if guile needs our copy of srfi-1... no
> checking if guile needs our copy of srfi-11... no
> checking if guile needs our copy of srfi-19... no
> checking if guile needs our copy of srfi-2... no
> checking if guile needs our copy of srfi-8... no
> checking if guile needs our copy of srfi-9... no
> checking if guile needs our copy of (guile www)... yes
> checking for gnome-config... no
> configure: error: Could not find gnome-config
> [ryan at localhost gnucash-1.8.11]$
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It's looking for /usr/bin/gnome-config which is supplied by 
gnome-libs-devel-1.4.1.2.90-44.1.i386.rpm which can be found on the 
fourth disk of the distribution.

Mark Eackloff


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