Cannot Build Successfully on Slackware-10.2

Andrew Sackville-West andrew at farwestbilliards.com
Sun Jan 8 14:10:13 EST 2006


On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 08:42:40 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Mark Johnson wrote:
> 
> > 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.)
> 
> Mark,
> 
>    I found, built, and installed gdk-pixbuf.
> 
> > 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.
> 
>    Using checkinstall (the crippled version provided with the Slack distro)
> instead of 'make install' creates a shell package that installs the
> library/application and adds the name to /var/log/packages.
> 
> > 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.
> 
>    I seem to be back in the gnome dependency hell. Trying to configure
> gnucash-1.8.12 after getting the gdk-pixbuf installed, it dies because it
> cannot find 'gal.' When I try to configure that library, it dies because
> there is "No package 'libgnomeprint-2.2' found". Sigh.
> 
>    I'm very, very disappointed. I may have to move to one of the
> eye-candy-bloated Qt based application such as KMyMoney (a too-cute name) or
> QHacc (another app with gratuitious eye candy images that have no
> functionality.)
> 

Are you still working on this? how's it going? 

A

> Nuts,
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> Rich
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