More on gnucash on Intel Mac
David Hampton
hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net
Sat Jun 17 15:56:55 EDT 2006
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 14:19 -0500, Jed Diem wrote:
> I downloaded the 1.9.7 sources and checked the dependencies; most, if
> not all, seemed to be satisfied with binary fink downloads. For some it
> was not all together clear. I can provide details.
>
>
> One which I was sure would be satisfied was one for guile 1.6 which is
> installed (with development package) on the system. But ./configure
> aborts with the following message:
>
> "checking for guile - 1.6.0 <= version < 99.99.99... no:
> configure: WARNING: guile version check failed
> configure: error:
>
> guile does not appear to be installed correctly, or is not in the
> correct version range. Perhaps you have not installed the guile
> development packages? Gnucash requires at least version 1.6 to build."
>
> Since guile (1.6) was in /sw/bin as guile-1.6, I renamed (moved) it to
> guile. Same error message from ./configure.
You'll need the -dev packages for guile and anything else gnucash says
that it needs to compile. These packages are needed because you're
compiling gnucash, not just running a pre-built executable.
David
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