Cannot Build Successfully on Slackware-10.2

[Mark Johnson]

When I upgraded my Slackware 10.0 system to 10.2, my gnucash wouldn't 
run either.  I traced this to a problem with the Slackware 10.2 
gdk-pixbuf package.  It does not contain the library 
libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.  However, when I built this package from the 
source, that library did build.  (I posted this to a slackware news 
group, but never heard anything back as to how to report it.  If you 
know where to repor it, let me know.)

I did have to remove all the "DESTDIR=xxx" lines from the Makefile's to 
get this to build and install in a tmp directory so that I could make a 
Slackware package out of it.

After that, my gnucash ran.  I did not rebuild any of the dependencies 
after the upgrade either.  Some of them on my system are Slackware 8.1 
binaries.

Mark

Rich Shepard wrote:

>    I had been using gnucash-1.8.11 on Slackware-10.1 but let my 
> transfer from
> the paper check register slide. I upgraded to Slackware-10.2 and now 
> gnucash
> will not load and run. It was missing libglade.so.0, but I fixed that 
> with a
> soft link. Then it couldn't find libglade-gnome.so.0 and I have been 
> unable
> to find a way to fix that.
>
>    Next I tried to build gnucash-1.8.12, but ran into a bunch of gnome
> dependencies. libgnomeprint won't build from the source tarball 
> because of an
> error in the code (trying to free already freed memory, apparently). 
> Then I
> discovered a reference to building gnucash-1.8.11 on Slackware-10.1, and
> tried that route by grabbing the ORBit tarball and trying to build that.
> Another make error. I've not seen this type of error before in the 8.5 
> years
> I've used linux, and I hit it twice in a single afternoon.
>
>    I'm stuck. Gnucash ran just fine on Slackware-8.0 through -10.1, 
> but now it
> won't fire up. Google turned up a reference to building gnucash for 
> Slackware
> that's supposed to be on the gnucash Web site but I could not find 
> that. I
> also could not access the wiki/FAQ: access denied.
>
>    If anyone has suggestions on how to get gnucash running again, I'd 
> really
> appreciate reading them. It's been a long, unproductive afternoon.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
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