libgnomecanvas and Intel Macs

[David Reiser]

On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:39 AM, David T. wrote:

> Sorry to keep beating an ailing equine (it's not dead yet!), BUT...
>
> I see in gnome bug list http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi? 
> id=339489 that
> an apparent fix to this package allows gnucash to run in Mac OS X  
> on Intel
> machines. Leon says there that he "recompiled libgnomecanvas2 with - 
> O1 and the
> problem is gone."
>
> I am tantalized by this tidbit--does this mean that GC could now  
> run under
> Intel Mac OS X? If so, please help me understand what I'd do to  
> follow Leon's
> lead. I located several copies of libgnomecanvas2.info on my drive,  
> and believe
> that the copy I should (as suggested) change is in
> /sw/fink/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome (a second copy is in the same
> essential location, except in the unstable tree, while there are  
> additional
> copies in the fink.old tree, which I will disregard). I even see in  
> that file
> the line where SetCFLAGS includes "-O3". If I were to change this  
> to "-O1" as
> proposed in the above bug discussion, would a Reinstall from binary  
> for
> libgnomecanvas2 in FinkCommander enable me to then install GnuCash?
>
> Or is there a simpler way?
>
> Or should I just keep waiting for someone else to step forward and put
> something up for fink?
>
> TIA,
> David
>
The change is already available in fink 10.4/unstable  
libgnomecanvas2-2.14.0-1002. I don't have an Intel Mac, but I seem to  
recall someone reporting that the -1002 info file version allowed  
them to run gnucash 2 successfully on their Intel Mac.

If you want to do it yourself, you can't just reinstall from binary,  
you have to rebuild libgnomecanvas2 using the modified CFLAGS option  
before reinstalling. I don't know if you have to recompile gnucash  
after fixing libgnomecanvas. I'd go ahead and fix libgnomecanvas and  
see if gnucash runs without recompiling.

Dave
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David Reiser
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