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

[Alpár Jüttner]

I can't understand. If a package maintainer manages to compile
gnucash-1.8.12 on SuSE10.0, why can't I do it myself?

Alpar

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 11:45 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> 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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> 
> Neil Williams 
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