Gnucash on SuSE9.3 (gal)

[Andrew Sackville-West]

from my archives


PACKAGES TO INSTALL (Suse release)

g-wrap-1.3.4.tar.gz
glib-devel-1.2.10-586.i586.rpm 9.1
gnome-libs-devel-1.4.1.7-666.i586.rpm 9.1
gtk-devel-1.2.10-877.i586.rpm 9.1
orbit-devel-0.5.17-328.i586.rpm 9.1
imlib-devel-1.9.14-180.8.i586.rpm 9.1
libxml-devel-1.8.17-374.i586.rpm 9.3
db1-devel-1.85-89.i586.rpm 9.3
gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.22.0-67.i586.rpm 9.3
gnome-print-devel-0.37-4.i586.rpm 9.3
libglade-devel-0.17-234.i586.rpm 9.3
gal-devel-0.24-218.i586.rpm 9.3
gtkhtml-devel-1.1.10-206.i586.rpm 9.3
libghttp-devel-1.0.9-649.i586.rpm 9.3
oaf-devel-0.6.10-441.i586.rpm 9.3
bonobo-devel-1.0.22-276.i586.rpm 9.3
gnucash-1.8.11.tar.gz 9.3

HTH, IANASU(Suse user).

A

Des Dougan wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 13:31 +0100, Michael wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>i can't compile gnucash 1.8.12 on SuSE 9.3. When I run configure, it 
>>stops with:
>>
>>checking for libglade... yes
>>checking for main in -lgal... no
>>configure: error: gal library not found. See the README and config.log 
>>for more info.
>>
>>gal and gal-devel are installed from SuSE 9.3:
>>
>># rpm -qa | grep gal
>>gal-0.24-218
>>gal-devel-0.24-218
>>#
>>
>>a part of config.log:
>>configure:23010: checking for main in -lgal
>>configure:23034: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lgal -rdynamic 
>>-L/opt/gnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -lgal -lgnomeprint 
>>-lfreetype -lglade-gnome -lglade -lxml -lz -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl 
>>-lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -lasound -laudiofile 
>>-ldb1 -lgdk_pixbuf -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 
>>-lm -lgnomecanvaspixbuf -lpopt -lm  -lm >&5
>>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
>>cannot find -lesd
>>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>configure:23040: $? = 1
>>
>>
>>#uname -a
>>Linux mn 2.6.11.4-21.9-default #1 Fri Aug 19 11:58:59 UTC 2005 i686 i686 
>>i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>>Any ideas / advice???
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Michael
> 
> 
> There is a thread from several months ago (July 29/30) which identifies
> the various packages required to compile GnuCash on SuSE 9.3. You may
> find you need packages other than esound.
> 
> Des