Gnucash 2.0.3 on Slackware 11.0: Success

[Derek Atkins]

Could you put this onto the Wiki at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki 
on the Slackware page?

-derek

"J. Milgram" <milgram at cgpp.com> writes:

> Holy guacamole, it works. It actually required fewer hours to figure out
> than in the past (I won't say the number) because all the Gnome
> dependencies are nicely taken care of by Dropline (and I guess also by
> Gnucash becoming a Gnome 2 app).
>
> Unfortunately I didn't take very careful notes but here's a rough
> outline.
>
> 1) fresh Slack 11 installation
> 2) full dropline install
> 3) removepkg guile-1.8.0-i486-1
> 4) install guile 1.6.8 from sources
> 5) install g-wrap 1.3.4 from sources
> 6) install slib 2d6
> 7) ./configure && make && make install.
>
> I found that the guile 1.8.0 that Slackware 11 ships with created
> problems. Problems too with g-wrap 1.9.x and slib 3a4. Maybe I wasn't
> doing something right with them but at this point I'm happy to declare
> victory.
>
> This two-line script was useful for checking out the guile/g-wrap/slib
> installation:
>
> guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'printf)"
> guile -c "(use-modules (g-wrap))"
>
> ... without having to re-run gnucash's configure script over and over.
>
> Speaking of which, gnucash configure didn't bomb even though I had a
> broken g-wrap-config (needed to re-install g-wrap after re-installing
> guile). g-wrap-config was bombing with messages like "/usr/bin/guile:
> bad interpreter" because it was now in /usr/local/bin/guile. Took me a
> while to figure this out - would have been useful for the configure
> script to stop then and there because sooner or later the build fails
> when it can't find the g-wrap headers. Just a suggestion.
>
> Thank again to the Gnucash developers, and the Dropline Gnome folks
> too, and Patrick V.
>
>
> -- Judah
>
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