Configure problem--Gnucash-docs & Makefile.in

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:44:35PM +1000, Leslie Katz wrote:
> I earlier raised a supplementary question about being told that I didn't 
> have the file help/C/Makefile.in and suggested a tentative answer to my 
> own question. I decided to try my tentative answer on the basis that, if 
> it didn't work, I could start again.
> 
> My tentative answer was to delete the empty help/C and then rename 
> help/c as help/C.
> 
> After I did that, I ran configure again and it didn't complain about 
> missing help/C/makefile.in.
> 
> However, it turned out that there was the same problem re 
> guide/C/Makefile.in, so I did re it the same thing I'd done re help/C.
> 
> After that, everything worked without complaint and when I opened v 2 of 
> Gnucash, my Help material appears to be there.
> 
> I'm assuming that the problem I faced had something to do with my own 
> peculiar setup, rather than being a bug in Gnucash v 2.

There's been a similar report on #gnucash from someone using a vfat
filesystem.  Are you _sure_ that's not the case for these files on
your system?

-chris

> 
> Thanks to all for your earlier help.
> 
> Leslie