Compiling gnucash on SuSE 9.3 - 64 bit architecture

Dan Black philippines at charter.net
Sun Sep 4 08:11:57 EDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 00:27 -0700, Des Dougan wrote:
> I recently bought a new PC, which has an AMD Sempron chip. The SuSE 9.3
> installation identified it as having an x86_64 architecture and
> installed successfully. As I had recently compiled gnucash 1.8.11 on my
> old box, I also wanted to do the same on the new. However, although I
> have followed Thomas Spahni and CS's instructions, and have installed
> the various RPMs, when I try to compile gnucash, the configure fails
> with:
> 
> checking for main in -lgal... no
> configure: error: gal library not found. See the README and config.log
> for more info.
> 
> # rpm -qa | grep gal
> gal2-2.4.1-3.1
> gal-devel-0.24-221
> gal-0.24-221
> 
> 
> I'm assuming this is related to the architecture, but have no clue why
> it worked on my 32 bit box and won't here. I'd appreciate any
> thoughts...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Des

This would probably have to do with the location of the libraries.  On
32-bit machines, you have /usr/lib, but on SuSE 64-bit, there is
also /usr/lib64. You need to make sure that configure is looking in both
directories.

Dan



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