/usr/local/lib/libgw-gnc.a: invalid ELF header

[Neil Williams]

On Monday 21 November 2005 9:57 am, Alpár Jüttner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the same problem as below. Could anybody help solvig it?

I don't think it can be solved in the gnucash 1.8 tree, it is solved in 
gnucash2.

> Btw, gcc-4.0 emits warnings with gnucash 1.8.12, therefore
> --disable-error-on-warning option must be used.

disable-error-on-warning prevents some nasty problems. Essentially, gnucash 
1.8.x uses a version of g-wrap that does not produce correct code with gcc4. 
This is part of the G2 work. If gnucash won't compile without 
disable-error-on-warning it isn't likely to work once compiled with it set. 
(Which is why it's used.)

1. Why are you compiling the 1.8 tree? You should be on SVN and using the 
Gnome2 port if you are compiling from source.

2. Use existing binary packages for 1.8 until gnucash2 is ready.

3. If no binary package exists for your platform, work with the SVN source to 
create one based on G2 - there's no further development in the 1.8 tree.

> > I have successfully built and have been running the source from 1.8.11.
> > I just built 1.8.12 and I get the following when I try to launch:
> >
> > $ gnucash
> > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> > ERROR: file: "libgw-gnc", message: "/usr/local/lib/libgw-gnc.a: invalid
> > ELF header"
> >
> > Anybody know what I need to do here?

Either :

1. downgrade gcc to 3.3 or 3.4 (not necessarily trivial) or 

2. move to SVN and use the gnucash2 source that works with gcc4.

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