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

[Morris Walton]

I downloaded and rebuilt the source for guile-1.6.7, and g-wrap-1.9.6, 
but i kept running into the same issue. 
 
This thread offers clues to what it was:

http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2004-October/012145.html

It has to do with configure/libtool thinking you use *.a instead of 
*.so.   

This is what you want:
configure:13555: checking if libtool supports shared libraries
configure:13557: result: yes
configure:13564: checking whether to build shared libraries
configure:13585: result: yes
configure:13592: checking whether to build static libraries
configure:13596: result: no

I want to think I copied a utility from the other build directories to 
get the configure to specify shared libraries, but for the life of me I 
can't find evidence of that now.


Alpár Jüttner wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have the same problem as below. Could anybody help solvig it?
>Btw, gcc-4.0 emits warnings with gnucash 1.8.12, therefore
>--disable-error-on-warning option must be used.
>
>Thanks,
>Alpar
>
>On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 00:30 -0400, Morris Walton wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>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?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Morris
>>
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